Dave Dickerson wrote:
> System:
> Gateway GP6-350,
> IDE primary master hard drive,
> IDE secondary master CD-R,
> 128MB RAM,
> external USB Maxtor OneTouch hard drive
>
> Software: SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 Desktop with MP1/UP1 followed by
> MP3/UP3.
>
> In playing around with this test system, I noticed that mkdev hd has
> options to install the USB drive but not to remove it.
>
> How does one permanently remove a USB drive from the hardware
> configuration after it's no longer wanted?
>
> I've searched the man pages, onboard help, and online sources,
> including SCO's TA area (public & member) to no avail.
>
> Any guidance appreciated.
>
> DDinAZ

Removing hard drives has always been less than obvious in OSR5. There
are TA's that deal with this, but of course they don't reference USB
drives specifically.

http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?105864
http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?105052

On the other hand, does it matter? Unless you try to access the device
node for the non-existent drive, no harm will come from having it
defined. So take it out of /etc/fstab and don't worry about it.
--
Tony Lawrence