I have a 2019 Mac Pro with several external Thunderbolt drives. In the past few days, when putting the computer to sleep, I am getting the infamous “disks not ejected properly” when resuming out of sleep. I have to disconnect and reconnect the drives to get them to mount. In system prefs, I have the “put disks to sleep” disabled. Is any one else experiencing the same. This issue is driving me crazy.
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MP 7,1 Sleep Issues on Mac Pro 7.1
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every external disk will eject when a macpro goes to sleep
it is normal, and you should unmount before putting to sleep
it is normal, and you should unmount before putting to sleep
Sleep is a big problem with the 2019 Mac Pro, Catalina 10.15.2 and external enclosures. Apple is aware (at the top of management) that this is a major problem with Catalina and is trying to fix it.
You shouldn't have to unmount when you put the Mac to sleep - this should work with no problems whatsoever (has worked for all previous OSX systems). Hoping to hear back from one of the Apple engineers this week.
You shouldn't have to unmount when you put the Mac to sleep - this should work with no problems whatsoever (has worked for all previous OSX systems). Hoping to hear back from one of the Apple engineers this week.
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I had a related problem.. i don't use sleep, but my MacPro would not shutdown cleanly. The solution for me was
1. Stop using Pathfinder 9.0. It would invariably hang at some point.
2. Stop daisy chaining the 3 OWC Thunderbay enclosures I use (2 TB3 and 1 TB2). I now am using 3 separate cables.
No shutdown issues for several weeks.
1. Stop using Pathfinder 9.0. It would invariably hang at some point.
2. Stop daisy chaining the 3 OWC Thunderbay enclosures I use (2 TB3 and 1 TB2). I now am using 3 separate cables.
No shutdown issues for several weeks.
Do you have "Wake for network access" and "Enable Power Nap" turned off in Energy Saver?
That's odd. I generally have sleep disabled, but just tested and it seems to be working as expected, including with incoming alerts from Messages. What kind of alerts were you referring to that keep waking your Mac? I've never had to use Do Not Disturb to have sleep work either.
My Mac Pro didn't wake until I tapped the space bar. An external drive was still mounted too, which seems to be a problem for others sometimes too. You didn't mention it, but are you using the stock keyboard and mouse? If not, maybe try with the stock ones in case one of those is interfering with sleep for some reason.
Unless I have something wrong here? If I set a reminder in the Reminders app it will wake everything up. I can't get this thing to sleep long enough to invoke the password request timer.
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It does work for me on all of my systems. I've not experienced any drives getting disconnected on system wake. On my trashcan a pretty crucial data drive is connected via USB3 and put to sleep along with the computer daily for months and months without issue.
Not running Catalina here though.
ok, i haven't tried it for 8 years and maybe a new firmware or system fixed the problem.
or maybe it is different with trashcan with USB3.0
what i noticed on one of my test computers, however, is that sleep (yes, the first time in years a cMP is put into sleep mode +g*) and waking up is no problem with mojave, but under catalina it was not possible to get a picture.
so the only thing that helped was a reboot via the keyboard