On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 21:29 +0000, Don Brace wrote: > As far as I can see, udev looks for file access in sysfs. > I am not exactly sure which rule changes this. It was added in more recent > distros. Can someone help me out? Hello Don, Can you check on your test system which udev rule changes max_sectors_kb? I have checked two recent Linux distro's but haven't been able to find such a udev rule: $ grep -rw max_sectors_kb /usr/lib/udev/rules.d /etc/udev/rules.d | wc -l 0 Thanks, Bart.