The disc was not ejected properly

I am getting this error message all the time:  The disk was not ejected properly.  if possible, always eject a disk before unplugging it or turning it off.  I would love to know how to stop this from happening.  There is no disc in the drive.
Thanks,

The disc may refer to:
Flash media USB, Firewire, or Thunderbolt connected drive.
Optical disc.
External hard drive
iCloud mounted remote volume - error only appears if the remote volume suddenly disappears due to internet outage.
SD Card in SD card slot.
If you do not drag the icon for the media to the trash to "dismount" it, and either manually pull the plug, the media, or power to the media is lost, then the error will appear.  Make sure your all your media is showing up in the Finder, no matter what sort of media you have.  Guidelines for doing so are on this tip:
http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1015

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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.
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    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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    I have 3 Seagate 1.5TB external USB drives. Two of which I am using with a MacbookPro 17" first gen. Latest snow leopard. The third one I am tethering to a Dell XPS server. The one attached to the Dell works fine.
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    |
    | The disk was not ejected properly. If
    | possible, always eject a disk before
    | unplugging it or turning it off.
    |
    | To eject a disk, select it in the finder and choose File
    | > Eject. The next time you connect the disk, Mac OS
    | X will attempt to repair any damage to the
    | information on the disk.
    |
    | ( OK )
    I've replaced one of the drives through Seagate RMA and the same thing happens with the returned/refurbished drive. So, I really don't think there's anything wrong with the drives.
    I've tried at least 3 different USB cables of different lengths from different vendors. One is only 1.5feet & gold plated. Still, random ejects. Using the disk attached to an old dual G5 I have... I don't have this problem.
    Anyway, I am thus quite leery of using it for anything other than backups. I've never had the problem while actually copying files, only when I'm doing something else (like typing an email, or browsing the net).
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    Message was edited by: phpguru

    @Gizmolab - Thanks for that reply. It seems like a decent theory. I found Seagate Diagnostics for Mac. It says it's only for drives that have a FireWire800 port. The ones I am using have USB only. I installed it anyway. When I run diagnostics it says no drives found so I cannot diagnose them. I'll see how it goes though, maybe it updated the driver.
    To add some more info to this thread... I figured I'd try Disk Utility to manage the drives manually. I've tried dismounting them and also just dragging the volumes to the trash when they are not in use, and using Disk Utility to mount them again when they are needed.
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    Disk Utility reports that there appears to be no problems with the disk... thankfully. While typing this reply, I heard the disk go to sleep and about 3 minutes later it just ejected itself dang it. So Seagate Diagnostics appears to be only for Firewire800 drives.

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