Can't verify, repair or eject one of my internal drives,...

disk utility, disk warrior,.. both can't unmount the drive,...
can't drag to eject either,..
no busy files,... no open apps,...
even tried the "lsof | egrep" command in terminal to list open files,..
nothing,...
otherwise, the drive seems to be running normally,...
ideas geniuses,....?
cheers,...
M

repeat,.... i can't verify,...
Verifying doesn't require you unmount a drive, only repairing it does. I sometimes verify my boot drive.
You could boot from your installer disc and run it all from there, then if you do need to repair you'd have that feature available. I have also found that running verify on the same drive as that from which I am running the verification can lead to spurious errors, probably due to files being modified as they are being checked.

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