TM is a PITA until you specify a drive to backup to

I use a macbook pro for 99% of my computer usage. Also, I use 8-10 external firewire and usb drives to augment its limited harddisk. Before I specified a specific drive for TM to use, it asked EVERY time when I mounted an external drive if I wanted to make it the OFFICIAL TM backup drive. If I cancelled on a drive, it still asked if I remounted the drive. A real PITA! Until TM has the bugs worked out AND it can restore a system from scratch (which I don't believe that it can at this point), I want it turned OFF and NOT bugging me. If anyone can give the defaults or other command(s), to turn it off, I will just stay mad at it for continually requesting from me something that I do not want! Sorry for the caps, but I am a little frustrated with it.

I figured out a way of getting rid of the message. I mounted a spare drive with a name that I would never use again. I told TM to use it as the back up disk. Then I turned TM off and used Disk Utility to erase the partition changing its name. Disk Utility would not let me repartition it, but does allow erasure. If you turn TM back on, it says that it is waiting for the original drive name to be connected. No need to leave it on though. You can always change this later by specifying TM to use a different drive. Anyway, it solved my problem for now. It is just a PITA when Apple could have provided a simple "don't prompt" option on the TM Preference Pane.

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