A few months ago I bought a new, larger hard drive for my MacBook and an external drive enclosure from OWC in order to back up and restore to the new drive (enclosure)
It worked fine but I just upgraded to Leopard and decided to use my old drive (now external) as a backup drive for Time Machine. I plugged the drive in and set everything up and TM did it's backup fine. This morning I docked my iPhone to sync it and the external drive made a weird whining noise and was ejected from the desktop. I got an error about it being removed improperly. They drive then spun back up and mounted again. When the iPhone sync was done syncing the same thing happened again.
I'm guessing this is a power issue. I have my printer, iPhone dock and the drive cable plugged into a powered USB 2 hub and that goes into the MacBook. This lets me keep all that plugged in and I still have a free USB port for digital cameras or USB flash drives.
Anyone have any idea what I can do about it?
It worked fine but I just upgraded to Leopard and decided to use my old drive (now external) as a backup drive for Time Machine. I plugged the drive in and set everything up and TM did it's backup fine. This morning I docked my iPhone to sync it and the external drive made a weird whining noise and was ejected from the desktop. I got an error about it being removed improperly. They drive then spun back up and mounted again. When the iPhone sync was done syncing the same thing happened again.
I'm guessing this is a power issue. I have my printer, iPhone dock and the drive cable plugged into a powered USB 2 hub and that goes into the MacBook. This lets me keep all that plugged in and I still have a free USB port for digital cameras or USB flash drives.
Anyone have any idea what I can do about it?