text: <s>[INST] Kinetix drive axis practical remove Summary: drive hardware removed, run the machine without too much changes in the projecta Kinetix 7000 drive and motor are actually removed from a machine. the project was engineered with RSLogix 5000 using motion axis control through Sercos interface 1756-M16SE. the fiber optic ring is closed again without the presence of the above drive. what is the simplest practical way to run the machine again without any faults? i was considering the Inhibit Axis feature, to avoid destroying the software. any recommendations from the experts? [/INST] Inhibit axis would work fine, but you're going to have to look at overall application logic and make patches around the logic which refers to this drive. If you don't do this, then the logic will stall while it waits for responses from that drive. It shouldn't take that long to go through the logic to pull out or patch around the references to the drive. Doing it now, while you're thinking about the drive, makes more sense than 2 years down the road. Some poor slob will be trying to debug the machine and see program references to some mystery drive that doesn't exist. \\n </s>