Ejecting external discs doesnt work properly, no spin down of disc. why?

ejecting my external discs doesnt work properly anymore in 10.6, no spin down of disc happens, the finder unmounts the disc(s) and then the disc spins on and on. thats weird, because, in 10.5 i ejected discs and then they went spinning down the drive, as it has to be.
when i unplug the disc, which is unmounted from desktop, and still spinning, it makes a terrible noise in the disc. like a high pitched short tone.
any idea whats going wrong here?
thanks!

you probably mean "causing the fail to spindown"
you maybe mean software like techtoolpro5 or drive genius3?
yes i disabled these helper apps on the discs, but first i used it (like monitoring
all discs if they are nearly full, or working s.m.a.r.t and so on. yes its useful,
but obviously it causes problems. i must mention, that i tested my 4 external drives again,
and i found out that i can eject all discs, like said before, but only 2 of the discs are spinning down, after ejecting, BUT only when i use the button "eject" in harddisctoolkit, they dont spin down, when ejecting from desktop (apple+E), and the other 2 of the 4 drives refuse to spin down, after ejecting, even with pressing eject in harddisctoolkit....
i can also state, that these 2 discs, which refuse to spin down, are FW800/400 discs and connected via FW800. and the 2 discs which spin down succesfully are UBS2 discs, if thats worth mentioning...
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