I'm having a problem adding a SATA drive to my current obsd configuration.  I
have two IDE drives in the box.  A 12gig and a 40gig.  I have the /, /usr,
/var, /tmp and swap on the 12gig and /home on the 40 gig.  I just purchased a
SATA drive with a pci controller card to add to the box.  When I do add it to
the box, the bios recognizes the disk and everything, and then it asks me
which device to boot from at which point I choose the IDE Master.  The obsd
kernel boots fine, but then when it tries to mount the filesystems, there are
errors.  The problem is that when I add the SATA drive, the device ID becomes
wd0.

So before, the IDE Master used to be wd0 and the Slave wd1.  When the SATA is
added, that drive becomes the wd0 and the IDE's move up 1, wd1 and wd2
respectively.

What I'm wondering is, can I just modify the /etc/fstab to mount the
filesystems from wd1 and wd2 respectively, shutdown, install the SATA drive,
and boot up, or would I have to completely reinstall OpenBSD with the SATA
drive attached?  Also, would it just be easier to pick up a IDE drive perhaps
and add it to my Secondary IDE cable?

Thanks in advance.

Cordially,

Ryan Yu
Network Administrator
Howard Industries
814.833.7000 Ext. 258

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