USB drives showing up in gnome-disks, no drives plugged in. [SOLVED]

I'm guessing it's related to a shitty dollar store USB drive that I plugged in, but now I see two drives in gnome-disks.  There are no drives plugged in, and these are /dev/sdd and /dev/sde. The nodes are in /dev. They survive reboots as well.  Any idea how to get rid of them?  I was thinking that there may be a kernel module or something that got loaded...
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Last edited by madscience (2014-08-21 19:53:23)

I've restored a btrfs snapshot of / from before this happened, and it's still happening.
[ron@prime:~]$ dmesg | grep sdd
[ 7.612437] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ron@prime:~]$ dmesg | grep sde
[ 7.613064] sd 4:0:0:1: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ron@prime:~]$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 40G 0 part /
├─sda3 8:3 0 400G 0 part /home
└─sda4 8:4 0 25.8G 0 part [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 1.8T 0 part /mnt/storage
sdc 8:32 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 1.8T 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
udevadm info /dev/sdd
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:0/block/sdd
N: sdd
S: disk/by-id/usb-USB_2.0_USB_Flash_Driver_20080411413fc082-0:0
S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_2.0_USB_Flash_Driver_20080411413fc082-0:0 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
E: DEVNAME=/dev/sdd
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:0/block/sdd
E: DEVTYPE=disk
E: ID_BUS=usb
E: ID_INSTANCE=0:0
E: ID_MODEL=USB_Flash_Driver
E: ID_MODEL_ENC=USB\x20Flash\x20Driver
E: ID_MODEL_ID=0003
E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
E: ID_PATH_TAG=pci-0000_00_1d_7-usb-0_2_1_0-scsi-0_0_0_0
E: ID_REVISION=0100
E: ID_SERIAL=USB_2.0_USB_Flash_Driver_20080411413fc082-0:0
E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=20080411413fc082
E: ID_TYPE=disk
E: ID_USB_DRIVER=usb-storage
E: ID_USB_INTERFACES=:080650:ff4201:
E: ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM=00
E: ID_VENDOR=USB_2.0
E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=USB\x202.0\x20
E: ID_VENDOR_ID=18d1
E: MAJOR=8
E: MINOR=48
E: SUBSYSTEM=block
E: TAGS=:systemd:
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=343402
Last edited by madscience (2014-08-21 16:03:06)

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