hey all!

I like to use portable harddrives via USB. it's simple and easy to use. It also saves a LOT of time but here is a question....

When I am done with using the drive, I normally do;

and then turn off the portable drive cage and tada, stick it in my backpack...

but....

if you give the hard drive a little horizontal spin, it sounds like the reading arm hasn't been properly docked, it sounds loose in there and that makes me scared.

any ideas on how to "properly' umount a portable harddrive?

thanks you sexxy little geeks. :-*

You got it right, that's how you do it. Before you do the umount, you might want to do a sync, not that that will help much, but it's good to flush the cache to disk ( umount probably already does this, but old habits die hard ).

there is no APIC er anything feature that im missing? the reading arms, whatever they're called, sound to be free floating afterwards.

...though i've only tried this on seagate harddrives, maybe they just sound clunky, always.

It could be, but so long as the thing keeps working for you, then I would just attribute it to weird sounds, could be anything from a free floating piece in the case housing to the HD itself.