but i'll have to change it every time i add or remove a hard disk

which can be pretty frequent.
if the total number of drives in the system is not the same from boot

to boot, i have to tweak fstab.

is it possible for a future update of OpenBSD to tweak fstab to take

references to the boot drive? that should help a lot in such cases. I

could spout a lot of ideas, like having a unique identifier

(combination of timestamp and netcard/cpu id?) in the boot block for

reference in fstab, but i'm no expert.
Oh well i'll resign to your suggestions and follow a strict workflow:

no superfluous drives at boot and add them just before backup should

do fine, unless anybody has a better idea. I'd hate keeping back-up

drives in the machine for no apparent reason.
At least i don't have to spend more time searching for info as this

seems to be a dead end.
thanks for the feedback all round
regards
On Sep 11, 2008, at 13:53, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> Right, assuming you don't have to change your boot device in BIOS all

quoted text
> you have to do is do it in fstab.

>

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:04:19PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:

>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:40:47AM +0200, Joseph A Borg wrote:

>>

>>> I just added a 4 port promise sata card and cannot figure a way of

>>> forcing the sata ports on the motherboard to take precedence over

>>> the

>>> sata pci card.

>>

>> why? It's just a number.

>>

>>>

>>> Any pointers to useful info would be greatly appreciated. I guess

>>> i'll

>>> have to mess with the BIOS and IRQs but these are, till now out of

>>> my

>>> radar.

>>>

>>> regards

>>

>> Better not mess at all. Fix your fstab and all's well.

>>

>> 	-Otto