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After turning time machine on and then off again for an external volume, the disk will spontaneously unmount and takes around 30 seconds to list directories. Disk utility can't find anything wrong with it. Does anyone have any idea what could be the issue?
External drive enclosures often don't support providing SMART information about the drive. Can you take the drive and plug it into a desktop machine to check its smart settings? – Daniel Beck – 2011-01-03T15:24:22.043
What external drive is it? Western Digital green drives (for example) turn off after a period of time to "save energy" and there's no way around it. – None – 2011-01-03T16:03:27.577
It's a samsung spin point. SMART informations shows nothing unusual. I think it maybe a permissions issue. It works ok playing music tracks from it. But for example if I try and empty the trash folder it hangs then unmounts. – Leda – 2011-01-03T16:28:52.797