USB Disks with no Serials

[phillxnet (Philip Guyton)]

@Brett_Abela Thanks for the info.

@Brett_Abela

all the 0000’s are the USB attached ones…

As you say it’s giving all it’s hosted disks the same “000000000000” serial numbers.

As it goes we have seen the same in a 4 bay ORICO USB 3.0 device. Must be a habit of theirs

rockstor/rockstor-core/blob/master/src/rockstor/storageadmin/static/storageadmin/js/models/models.js#L47-L51

Pretty sure this was added after a report from forum member @beaglenz in the following forum thread:

Disk serial number or UUID is not legitimate or unique

Hi, before anyone tells me off for asking a question that is already posted please let me explain. I have a 4-bay Orico USB3.0 storage unit and when I add a second disk I get the above error. I suspect that this is because it is using a single interface. All of the answers that I find on the forums are related to the error for Roskstor that is running on a VM not a dedicated machine. Really like Rockstor but will have to change other software if I cant resolve this.

Looking again at that thread is seems the long serial made up by udev, presumably by adding on the usb sub device or something was then unique, if only by drive location rather than actual drive (would need confirming before actual use as it may just be order of appearance which could change between boots and would thus be no good at all) . And in turn udev was at least able to construct by-id names with the 4 drive version.

On a hunch of mine could you give us the output of the following commands:

ls -la /dev/disk/by-id/

and:

udevadm info --name sdg

and

udevadm info --name sdh

But in those last 2 commands please replace that sd# type name with that given to the drives in the enclosure that have the suspect serial, these types of names can change from boot to boot and so a re-run of the lsblk command should tell you what the names are on a particular boot.

I have in mind a potential ‘dirty hack’ that might get you up and running (As long as we keep it between ourselves of course ): that is if you are desperate to use that enclosure (although I would still not recommend it’s use) and are happy to do a little code editing; and to have to repeat it after every update!!! Lets see how the output of thoses commands looks first as it may not be possible at all (as opposed to just not recommended).

Cheers.