I have created a Linux kernel and for some reason an extra drive is always added at bootup.

My hard drive is listed as /dev/sdb. /dev/sda is created too, and it is 8 MB in size. I can't find anything in the kernel config that is creating this, but if I use a different kernel it is not there. Kernel logs show it as an attached SCSI device, looks just like my hard drive but only 8 MB, and has no partition table. It also doesn't appear to be a physical device. I've tried the kernel on many different models of PCs and it is always there.

Does anyone know how to remove it?

/dev/disk/by-id gives me:

scsi-1AMCC_U21413034D98EB000584 
scsi-1AMCC_U21413034D98EB000584-part1 
scsi-353333330000007d0 
scsi-SATA_ST3250312AS_5VY7SH42 
scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-60L_WD-WMAM9Y085675 
scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-60L_WD-WMAM9Y085675-part1 
scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-60L_WD-WMAM9Y085675-part2

hdparm -i /dev/sda gives me an "invalid argument".

dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.img the resulting file does not have any content

sdparm results:

/dev/sda: Linux     scsi_debug        0004 Device identification VPD page:   Addressed logical unit:
designator type: T10 vendor identification,  code set: ASCII
  vendor id: Linux   
  vendor specific: scsi_debug      2000
designator type: NAA,  code set: Binary
  0x53333330000007d0   Target port:
designator type: Relative target port,  code set: Binary
 transport: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
  Relative target port: 0x1
designator type: NAA,  code set: Binary
 transport: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
  0x52222220000007ce
designator type: Target port group,  code set: Binary
 transport: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
  Target port group: 0x100   Target device that contains addressed lu:
designator type: NAA,  code set: Binary
 transport: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
  0x52222220000007cd
designator type: SCSI name string,  code set: UTF-8
 transport: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
  SCSI name string:
  naa.52222220000007CD