Randomly occurring Disk Insertion error message

Running a mac mini with 10.5.4 I seem to get a randomly occurring error message "Disk Insertion - The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" with choices to "Initialize" or "Eject". The weirdness is that the message seems to pop up at random intervals when I haven't attempted to insert a disk.
Mac mini 10.5.4 with 500GB external hard drive

I got this exact same message with my old Mini. It stopped as soon as I disconnected my iPod Shuffle. Haven't got round to figuring out how to fix it yet.

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