Cannot remove "removable" drives

[Daniel Robitaille]

> 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

In Computer ---> Desktop Preferences ---> Removable Storage
There are some options that you could unselect to disable the
automatic mounting and browing if removable media.  Have you played
with those?

Personally, for my cdrom drives, I disable the automatic mount, and
then uses the Gnome's Disk Mounter applet.one applet per drive.  I
inset the media in the drive, click on the applet to mount.  When I
need to unmount, click the applet again, and I have the applet defined
to eject on unmount.  I really prefer that total control on my drives
than having to deal.  I suspect you could something similar with your
Jaz Drive.