Media build part 2 (unreleased): drive wiring in every app (R-1024/R-1037), old-install repair (R-1047), drive events notice + real restart now/later + stream check, file browser lets go of dead/removed drives and recreates on return (R-1038), safe removal keeps the drive (R-1044), Plex claim on the running server + probe accept (R-1028/R-1045)

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS

controller/internal/web/intermediary.go

@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ func (s *Server) ReconcileDriveGates() {
 	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}
+	s.reconcileEjectedDrives(ctx, agent, resp.Disks)
 	for _, a := range planDriveGates(s.settings.GetStoragePaths(), resp.Disks) {
 		switch {
 		case a.Stop:
@@ -325,6 +326,7 @@ func (s *Server) ReconcileDriveGates() {
 			// E-2 Part 5: when the absent drive is the BACKUP TARGET, that is the more specific and more
 			// urgent fact, so it gets its own event rather than being folded into the generic one.
 			s.notifyDriveAbsent(a.Path, stopped, driveTargetByPath(resp.Disks))
+			s.mediaDriveEvent(a.Path, "removed")
 			go s.SyncFileBrowserMounts()
 		case a.Return:
 			if a.Raw != "" {
@@ -346,7 +348,9 @@ func (s *Server) ReconcileDriveGates() {
 			// E-2b: the recovery half. An operator told a drive vanished must be told it came back —
 			// otherwise the alarm is a dead end and the next one is trusted less.
 			s.notifyDriveReturned(a.Path, driveTargetByPath(resp.Disks))
-			go s.SyncFileBrowserMounts()
+			s.mediaDriveEvent(a.Path, "returned")
+			// R-1038: same path, same files → nothing „changed", yet the file browser holds the DEAD mount. Recreate.
+			go s.SyncFileBrowserMountsForce()
 		}
 	}
 }