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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Seattle
 
2007-03-16, 00:07

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Originally Posted by HungrySeacow View Post
OS X will automatically unmount attached drives in the shutdown process.
That's what I thought too. In fact, Mac OS has unmounted the drives since... always. (Remember when the little disky would pop out when you'd shut down the Mac LC? I do.)

It's when you do a hard shut as the drive is being read from / written to that you should be concerned.

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