HT3275 Message appears "The disk was not ejected properly...." I do not eject the disk or shut it down.

I am using an iomega external HD as my Time Machine backup drive. Occasionally I receive the message "The disk was not properly ejected...." I never eject the the disk or turn it off. The data on the drive does not appear to be affected. Any suggestions or fixes would be appreciated.

There are a lot of possibilities, unfortunately.
Does the external have it's own power supply? If so, make sure it's plugged-in to a known good outlet -- better yet, to the same good surge protector your iMac is plugged-in to -- even better, to the same U.P.S. (battery backup) your iMac is running from. That will protect them against power dips as well as power spikes, which can cause momentary disconnections.
It's possible the external isn't "spinning up" quickly enough after sleeping. Try moving the check from the Put the hard disk(s) to sleep ... box in System Preferences > Energy Saver. Some external drives respond to that setting, some don't. If that doesn't change, see if you can adjust or disable the "spin down" or sleep function of the drive (check the info that came with it, or with the maker). The older it is, the more likely it's slowing down a bit -- drives are mechanical beasties, after all, with tiny bearings and moving parts.
Try different ports, cables, and combinations of the two. A cable may be frayed invisibly; a plug that works fine in one port may not make good contact in another.

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I had this problem too, where it seemed I couldn't go eight hours without the Duo drives dropping and getting the "disc was not ejected properly" error message.
I tried the following and so far it seems to have fixed the problem:
In System Preferences > EnergySaver, make sure the setting “Put hard disks to sleep when possible" is unchecked.
I did this only on the Power Adaptor tab, but you might want to uncheck the setting on the Battery tab as well to be safe. (In my case, the Duo drives are unlikely to be attached when I’m running on battery, so I left the setting checked for the Battery tab so that the system can still power down the internal drive.)
Since I made the above change ten days ago, the Duo disks have not dropped, even when I left the system on with the Duo disks connected for a couple of days.
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Hmm... that was labelled:
As a Test:
In bold and all
Try repair the main Library:
Option 1
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TD

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Much appreciated.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
[email protected]

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