Ejecting USB HD, Receiving Warning At Wake Up

Just purchased two iMacs. Some questions:
27inch (wife is a photog)

1) I set up my SimpleDrive external HD to back up with TimeMachine. Works like a charm except every time I wake up from sleep I get the "disc not properly ejected" box. This is the only device connected. Do I need to eject the SimpleDrive every time we go to Sleep mode? Is there a way to set this up to be automatic?

2) If I connect a USB card reader; will I need to eject this too?

Thanks All.

I have read about some other drives months ago that did this and the companies fixed
it with a firmware upgrade. Have you gone to the drive's site to see if there is such and
then there just might be a compatibility issue.

I have the same problem with my trancend 32GB ssd expresscard - every time I come out of sleep it gives me the same warning. I think I also started having problems going into sleep because of the ssd. I didn't find any driver updates to try out.

The reason I say it may be a per device is because I do have a WD 750GB external usb drive that has no problem going into and out of sleep.

Diver said:

Just purchased two iMacs. Some questions:
27inch (wife is a photog)

1) I set up my SimpleDrive external HD to back up with TimeMachine. Works like a charm except every time I wake up from sleep I get the "disc not properly ejected" box. This is the only device connected. Do I need to eject the SimpleDrive every time we go to Sleep mode? Is there a way to set this up to be automatic?

2) If I connect a USB card reader; will I need to eject this too?

Thanks All.

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Thanks, I will check the SimpleDrive website.

Found two solutions to this eject disc problem:

Click Apple System Preferences,
Click Energy Saver,
Uncheck "Put hard disk (s) to sleep when possible"
This will allow the iMac to auto sleep without the eject problem. One still must eject the disc manually when manually putting the IMac to sleep.


Second option:

In Energy Saver,
Set slider on Computer Sleep to Never but leave Display Sleep to normal setting. This way most of the energy is still saved without the eject problem.