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Problem: Safely ejecting a 3.5” HD
#1
Hi,
I am new to this forum but a long time user of moOde player. 
Until recently I have been using an external 2.5” USB-powered HD for music files and it never had a problem self-ejecting whenever I shutdown mooOde. 
I just switched to a 3.5” self-powered HD and noticed that it is not properly ejected. I shutdown moOde, turned the HD off, unplugged it from the Pi and plugged to a MacMini to transfer some music files. The Mac was unable to mount the drive and gave me the “...improperly  ejected driver” message. 
Is there a safe way to eject a self-powered HD from within moOde (v4.3)? Any other way?
TIA,
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#2
Hi,
I really need help with this problem. Any takers? Tim?
Thanks.
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#3
Hi,

Very odd. Linux automatically "ejects" USB drives when they are removed but there may be something unique about the particular drive you are using thats causing an issue with auto-eject.

What model drive is it?

To manually "eject" a drive, enter the two commands below. The sync command flushes cached disk writes to the drive. The umount command un-mounts the drive.

Code:
sync
sudo umount /media/disk_label

You can use the command below to find the disk_label of the drive

Code:
ls /media

-Tim
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