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I have an HP xw8200 workstation running linux with two small, fast SCSI drives hooked up to the onboard LSI SCSI controller. The drives get labeled /dev/sda & /dev/sdb in /dev, respectively. I have a large SATA disk that I want to add to the system to store data, but every time I connect it, it's /dev gets assigned sda & the two scsi drives are assigned sdb,c, which messes with the boot procedure. How can I get this SATA drive to use sdc?

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Why are you not using labels or UUIDs for boot? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Mar 22 '11 at 10:32
I am using LVM & that is how fstab was generated. – churnd Mar 22 '11 at 10:50
@churnd You can modify fstab to use UUID or labels, UUID=[uuid] and LABEL=[label] respectively. The UUID can be detected with blkid (run it as root). The label can be found with ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ – Lekensteyn Dec 3 '11 at 13:13
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You could attempt to use udev (that daemon that controls the /dev filesystem) to write some rules that change the /dev entry for the SATA, and then modify your fstab to accomidate this.

You can find out how to write a udev entry (the page mostly covers USB devices, but that and the man pages should help you get a good idea on how to do it) by following the link above.

HackADay might expand your knowledge on udev rules a little bit as well.

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