OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 randomly ejecting external drives

HI there.
I have a 15" MacBook pro late 2008 (5,1) with 4Gb of ram. It has 3 external drives attached. One WD Studio 1Tb via FireWire 800 and 2 newer WD 3Tb drives via USB.
ON the studio drive is my iTunes library and I am trying to move it to the new (2 weeks old) 3Tb drive. iTunes can read the Studio drive ok and even play items from it but copying the data through Finder or even just accessing the drive sometimes forces an eject.
THe eject is so quick that it doesn't drop off the desktop and Finder rarely reports a force eject, but it's enough to stop the read, copy or move that is in progress.
The only way to get the drive back and working is to power the drive down and power back up and hope there is no corruption. This has happened once or twice with the USB based drives as well.
DIsk Utility, as long as the drive stays connected, report no problems. I've cleaned the contacts in the drive to rule out a contact fault and I've removed them from Spotlight.
Please help as I'd rather not have to rerip my CDs back into iTunes along with movies, apps etc.

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Yosemite "[Thunderbolt 2] disk not ejected properly" after sleep

Since installing Yosemite, when my Mac Pro comes out of sleep, I get a "Disk not ejected properly" for each disk drive attached by Thunderbolt 2. This all worked fine on Mavericks.
(I have a similar problem with my dual displays, which again worked fine on Mavericks - I've posted this on a different thread under Mac Pro).
The manual solution is to physically unplug the drives, but doing this more than 10 times a day is not impressing me.
Mac Pro 2014, OSX Yosemite 10.10.1, dual DELL U2713HM monitors, La Cie 2Bug Thunderbolt 2

Not sure how that helps Illaass - that thread is just another question with no answers. It might be an idea if you read the thread before suggesting it?
There is another thread that suggests a solution (link below), but I've attempted that fix with no success. I also get the "Scheduled Backup Failed" that is mentioned by others.
Re: Yosemite ejects external drives
Note that none of these issues happened before upgrading to Yosemite - everything was fine on Mavericks - and it appears as though Apple are keeping quiet on them.

Cannot eject external devices from Macbook Air.

For the past few months I have been unable to eject external drives, and volumes from my Air. I click on the eject (pyramid) icon, and nothing happens 100% of the time. I need to go to disk utility to be able to eject. Rather annoying.
Does anyone have a suggestion, and hopefully something less drastic than a complete os reinstall?

Hi, an example if this behaviour for me is when iTunes is running and playing music from my NAS, it will not allow ejection of that share. This might be the same with cable-connected external drives. Try making sure that any app that uses files on the drive is shut down and then retry the eject from Finder.

Imac randomly ejects by itself

I have an aluminum 20 inch imac that randomly ejects by itself. Does anyone else have this problem (if you did) how did you fix it?

sorry about that.
when i am using my imac the eject logo appears on the screen. this happens often. i don't think it has anything to do with my software because it happens if i am using photoshop, word, etc...
tonight i was using photoshop and i had a dvd with images in the imac and it kept ejecting the dvd on it's own. this happens if there is a disk in the drive or if there is not a disk in the drive.
hope that is a little more clear.
thanks.

USB and FireWire Ports randomly eject devices

Please, this is driving me totally batty. We're talking verge of insanity here. At first I thought it was a bad firewire hard drive. Then I replaced the hard drive, meanwhile losing a few hundred photos, just to find that the problem was the port. Jeez, I figured, I guess I will just get a bigger drive that will plug into the USB, even though I already have too many USB devices. Not only did i get one, but I got a second to back up the one, so that I wouldnt lose stuff again. And guess what? BOTH of the drives ejected randomly, while I was using them, the ejections occurring more and more frequently as time went on. So I cleared the PRAM. Problem solved...for a few days. Then it started again, and has gotten worse and worse. I've had to recreate my iPhoto library TWICE this week because the drive ejected while I was using iPhoto. That nearly 10k photos...it take a few hours to complete, so as you can imagine, its pretty annoying to have to do more than, oh, ONCE, EVER!! So, if anyone can tell me why all three of my ports that I could possibly plug an external drive into do this, please. I'd appreciate it. Especially if you could help before I was committed...

Perhaps I am not being descriptive enough of the problem? When I have any drive plugged in to either USB port, it randomly ejects, and the OS gives me the device removal scold message "Device Removal! You must eject drives before disconnecting, else you risk data damage or loss!" I'm not sure what happens if I plug in non-drive type devices, since I generally dont have them plugged in for long. If I plug a drive into the firewire, it just looks like it suffered a click-death. "Click click click click click click"
The problem is resolved temporarily by clearing the PRAM. Then it starts over again, becoming more frequent as time goes on.

System wakes up automatically several times during sleep (logs says RTC Alarm) and improperly Ejects external HD. [MBPro Late 2012 + OSX Yosemite]

Hi there,
Background:
the main issue is that after system wake-up I find often several notification messages about my external drive not being properly ejected.
This seems to be a common issue for many Yosemite users, some say disabling Spotlight indexing for that volume solves the problem, but this is not my case. That's why I'm creating another thread.
Multiple ejects:
Looking at system logs it comes out my MacBookPro with Yosemite when put in standby is actually waking up several times every approx 90 minutes to do something.
(MBP Late 2012: not a new MBP with PowerNap and thus cannot use nor disable it)
Logs are like this:
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: RTC: Maintenance 2015/2/20 02:21:13, sleep 2015/2/20 00:33:19
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: Previous sleep cause: 5
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds
20/02/15 03:21:13,062 sharingd[235]: 03:21:13.062 : SDStatusMonitor::kStatusBluetoothPowerChanged
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: TBT W (1): 0 [x]
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: [0xffffff8050811400](0)/(5) Device not responding
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: disk3s2: media is not present.
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: disk3s2: media is not present.
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: disk3s2: media is not present.
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: disk3s2: media is not present.
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: disk3s2: media is not present.
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: jnl: disk3s2: do_jnl_io: strategy err 0x6
20/02/15 03:21:13,000 kernel[0]: jnl: disk3s2: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 32768 bytes to the journal!
Questions:
- What is WAKE REASON - RTC (ALARM) ? - Could it be linked to Auto Time&Date Setting?
- Why disk3s2 is not present?
Disk is badly ejected only when connected through USB hub. When left connected to MBP USB port seems to behave fine.
Before Yosemite I've never had any problem with external HD connected to the hub.

I believe this is ready for submission for the Time Machine forum.
As noted, it does not cover diagnosis and correction of specific problems or errors, as that would seem to be better handled separately.
It also doesn't cover anything about Time Capsule, for the very good reason that I'm not familiar with them. If someone wants to draft a separate post for it, or items to add/update here, that would be great!
Thanks very much.

OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 randomly ejecting external drives

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