> 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.
No offense to anybody here, but that sucks! > > 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? I guess if the SATA controller works this is better than putting even more load on ide bus ... do the fstab thing you were thinking about I'm pretty sure it will work. Or are there any problems of wd1a being '/' that I DON'T know about ? greetz, ahb
