Raid drive (seagates) ejects on macbook retina sleep, Raid drive ejects on macbook retina sleep

Whoever can help me with this you would be my hero.  This problem plagues me.
So I have four hard drives hooked up to my macbook retina all USB 3.0.  All connected through 2 USB Hubs.
All drives work fine except I have severe issue with the raid drive.  It has two new seagate baraccuda 7200 @ 3 TB, for a total of 3 TB in RAID 1 mode (data reducndancy).
The problem is no matter whether I set the energy saver setting to put the drives to sleep when possible or not and leave them always running as soon as my MAC sleeps and I wake it up it says "please unmount or eject drive before unplugging" or something to that effect and then I have to reboot to access the drive.
I have had this probelm with two different enclosures and even went so far as to use a app called "jetison" which is supposed to eject your Hard drives before letting the computer sleep.  Nothing helps.
Is it the drives themselves?  Is it RAID 1 confguration on mac?  I even tried changing enclosures and still have the same probelm.. but could it nonetheless be the enclosure???

I should point out I have tried the drive with different cords, on different hubs, and directly into the computer.  Nothing helps.

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