[NTLUG:Discuss] hard drive madness

[Jay Urish]

Ok, this is chapping my hyde.

My K9 server has a 4 disk RAID array. When its the only "drive" in the 
system, Mandriva gives it /dex/sda

If I add  SATA hard drive, the new drive gets dev/sda and the bootable 
RAID gets pushed to /dev/sdb

This renders the system unbootable. I can fire up a rescue CD, mount my 
partition under /mnt and go edit lilo.conf and fstab to reflect the 
letter change but the system still wont boot. I did run lilo after the 
change but it still seems like its trying to talk to /dev/sda after the 
change.


Am I missing a file somewhere? Can I make the RAID array on the 3ware 
controller stay on /dev/sda while all new drives go higher 
/dev/sdb,sdc,sdd etc?