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Hi,
Everyone must be aware of the issue where external hard drives or usb sticks are not ejected properly when the Hackintosh goes to sleep. Every time I used to wake up the system i use to get a nasty message "The disk was not ejected properly. If possible, always eject a disk before unplugging it or turning it off".
This problem has been there ever since i have started using Hackintosh in 2011.
Today after a long time i googled about this problem again and found out that ppl did find a temporary solution to fix this problem by using a software to eject the drives before the system goes off to sleep and mounting them back again when system wakes up... but these posts are in legacy tonymac so I thought I ll bring this topic up in ML and give a solution to my fellow Hackintosh users.
I am using this solution on Mountain lion now and it works just perfect.
To solve this problem;
1. First make your existing hard drives appear as internal... under "About This Mac" go to "Storage" and verify if your HDD is appearing as internal. Usually in a hackintosh it appears as an external disk. So if this is the case with you just install 3rd Party SATA kext from Multibeast->Driver->Disk->3rd Party SATA .
Make sure u delete IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector kext if you are using it to make your disks appear as internal, cause it is just a cosmetic change to the icons. Moreover It will not be required anymore. Restart you system and confirm if the drives have started appearing as internal.
2. Now download and install a small app named "Jettison" from app store. Though it is a paid ($1.99) but the app is totally worth it!. Pls Buy.
3. Launch Jettison preferences and select "Eject External Disks Before sleep" and you are good to go.
Now put the Hackintosh to sleep and test.... No more error messages on the screen to eject the disk properly, Yeah!
I hope this post ll help a lot of users like me.
Cheers!
Everyone must be aware of the issue where external hard drives or usb sticks are not ejected properly when the Hackintosh goes to sleep. Every time I used to wake up the system i use to get a nasty message "The disk was not ejected properly. If possible, always eject a disk before unplugging it or turning it off".
This problem has been there ever since i have started using Hackintosh in 2011.
Today after a long time i googled about this problem again and found out that ppl did find a temporary solution to fix this problem by using a software to eject the drives before the system goes off to sleep and mounting them back again when system wakes up... but these posts are in legacy tonymac so I thought I ll bring this topic up in ML and give a solution to my fellow Hackintosh users.
I am using this solution on Mountain lion now and it works just perfect.
To solve this problem;
1. First make your existing hard drives appear as internal... under "About This Mac" go to "Storage" and verify if your HDD is appearing as internal. Usually in a hackintosh it appears as an external disk. So if this is the case with you just install 3rd Party SATA kext from Multibeast->Driver->Disk->3rd Party SATA .
Make sure u delete IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector kext if you are using it to make your disks appear as internal, cause it is just a cosmetic change to the icons. Moreover It will not be required anymore. Restart you system and confirm if the drives have started appearing as internal.
2. Now download and install a small app named "Jettison" from app store. Though it is a paid ($1.99) but the app is totally worth it!. Pls Buy.
3. Launch Jettison preferences and select "Eject External Disks Before sleep" and you are good to go.
Now put the Hackintosh to sleep and test.... No more error messages on the screen to eject the disk properly, Yeah!
I hope this post ll help a lot of users like me.
Cheers!