On Monday 12 March 2007 17:00:09 Bob Sanders wrote:
> P.V.Anthony, mused, then expounded:
> > Currently in the fstab the boot and root partitions are set and working
> > great. Once a new sata drive connected, the drive assignments change.
> > Initially the / (root) is /dev/sda2. Once another sata drive is added
> > the / (root) becomes say /dev/sdb2.
> >
> > Is there any way that this can be fixed even when more drives are added
> > or removed?
>
> Typically, on the same controller, the lowest numbered port becomes the
> first drive.  The description of the symptom leads me to believe that
> your /dev/sda drive is attached to port 2 instead of being attached to
> port 1.  Have you tried moving your SATA cable to a different port?
>
I had the same problem and despite my existing drive being connected to what 
was labelled on the motherboard as SATA1 it in fact was not! Trial and error 
gave me the correct one... It would be useful if the nodes were more fixed 
but most systems do not change after initial set up and this situation can be 
fixed quite easily.