I finally got to a point this morning when I could reboot. After doing so everything is back to normal - after closing the drive door with media in it the media appears, although not mounted, and dmesg no longer ends in the dreaded "inode busy" message.
While rebooting solves the problem, all my searching on the net failed to produce a way to solve the problem without rebooting. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug