Anyone know what this might be?
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Joshua Kim39 said:Something weird is happening with my Seagate
You know that moment when you go to unplug a thumb drive and that little "Safely Remove Hardware" window pops up? Well, mine is acting super funky—it’s giving me the option to eject an "Eject WDC 5000AAKX-001CA0 ATA Device." Basically, it's asking if I want to unmount my actual hard drive 😲
I only caught onto this because even when nothing is plugged in, my taskbar icon in the bottom right corner keeps insisting there's a USB device attached. It's like my computer thinks it's constantly connected to something
Oh, and one more thing! Every single time I boot up, I get this split second where the screen goes black and white text flashes, saying stuff like "no hard disc detected." Then, out of nowhere, it just moves past it, macOS loads up, and everything works totally fine
In the BIOS, the SATA controller is set to AHCI mode. On paper, that should support hot-swapping SATA devices quite well, especially for things like external drives. My drivers are all correctly installed, too—everything seems to be in order. I've handled the OS and driver setup myself, so don't worry, I'm definitely not trying to yank the system drive out while it's running!