Cannot remove "removable" drives

[Michael C. Thorogood]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

>I've had no luck ejecting Jaz disks from my Ubuntu warty system.
>As soon as I mount them, the desktop notices and displays a window
>full of the contents.
>  -- it's a separate issue, but I'd like to disable this too
>I can mount or unmount either through the GUI or through the
>command line, but any attempt to "eject" them fails, either manually
>(throught the button on the face of the drive), throught the 'eject'
>command, or through the GUI "eject" menu item.  In each case,
>the drive lights flash for a bit, then the drive gets remounted and
>I see the GUI window again.
>
>I'd really like to eject the silly things because I need to put a different
>volume there.  I don't want to have to reboot just to do that.
>
>Help?
>
>++ kevin
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can you unmount them using the lazy option for umount then use the eject 
command. i.e., umount -l <device>

Mike