May 28, 20251 yr I have a six bay chassis with an array configured using all six disks.There is an additional 128MB USB device that is built into the motherboard and cannot be disabled and is unused/unassigned.This is preventing me from purchasing a starter license for six devices as this useless chunk of flash storage cannot be disabled. I do not want to buy an unlimited device license for a chassis that I cannot physically add more disks to than the six that currently max it out.Is there any way around this?
May 28, 20251 yr Community Expert Solution You can drop the USB device offline:echo 1 > /sys/block/sdX/device/deleteNote that it will be back after a reboot, but if the ID doesn't change, you can add the command to the go file to do it every boot automatically.
March 4Mar 4 Author @JorgeB Many thanks for the above fix.I have just upgrade to 7.2.4 and the device I need to remove has returned.The line is still in in the go file but no longer works. I have checked in the /sys/block directory - has the naming convention for devices changed?
March 4Mar 4 Community Expert The command is still the same; check if the device identifier (sdX) changed.
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