Topic: FW Harddrive will not eject?

[Patrick]

My Lacie Rugged bus powered FW400 hard drive won't eject from my computer (macbook, os10.5. because it says that it is "in use."  I don't have any programs running, and spotlight is not indexing the drive so nothing should be using the drive causing it to not eject.  This only started happening after I had some scary experiences with this drive and a PC that kept locking up a few days ago...I had to hard reboot that computer a few times and my drive was disconnected without ejecting.

Anyone experiece this?  Any help from the mac guys on here?

[fleish]

Open a terminal (applications -> utilities -> terminal) & type this command:

sudo fuser -c /Volumes/<volumename>

replacing <volumename> with the name of your drive (if you don't know it, first run this command:
df -h
to find it)

the fuser command will tell you what process ID is still accessing the drive

once you have that, you can run this command to find out what the process is:
ps axuw | grep <process_ID>

depending on what it is you might be able to try killing it with this command:
sudo kill <process_ID>

though I don't recommend doing that blindly until we know what the process is

shutting down/rebooting will probably also fix this but you don't want to have to do that every time

you may also want to verify the disk using disk utility (applications -> utilities -> disk utility)