NASLite Network Attached Storage

I am planning to upgrade from NASLite+ 1.5 USB to NASLite+ 2.x but I need to preserve the same disk names that I currently have. i.e. Disk-1 must remain as Disk-1, Disk-2 must stay as Disk-2, etc. I have 4 drives in total all on the built-in IDE channels.

What I plan on doing is adding in an IDE controller (RAID is not necessary) and two additional drives. When I do this will Disk-0 be the first drive on the built-in controller or the first drive on the added IDE controller?

I am assuming that Disk-0 through Disk-3 will be on the built in controller and Disk-4 and Disk-5 will be on the added in controller. Is that correct?

That's the way I would expect it to be. When I had 2 x IDE (Master) and 4 x (PCI, SiI 3114) SATA drives installed it went:

Disk-0 : Onboard IDE Chan0 Master
Disk-1 : Onboard IDE Chan1 Master
Disk-2 : PCI SATA Chan0
Disk-3 : PCI SATA Chan1
Disk-4 : PCI SATA Chan2
Disk-5 : PCI SATA Chan3
Disk-6 : USB Configuration Drive

When I had one of the SATA drives attached to the motherboard SATA controller, it was Disk-2, implying onboard IDE before onboard SATA in terms of Disk numbering.

to keep the names the same you would have to add a new HD as Disk-0 and move each of the HDs up a level.

gaiden,

Yes, I know that. I asked the question so I can figure out where to put the new drive "Disk-0". I am assuming I need to put a new drive on the onboard primary master (so it becomes Disk-0), then move all of the drives "up" one spot on the onboard IDE controller moving the last drive to the newly installed PCI IDE controller.

Hi Grasshopper,

sorry I didnt explain myself very clearly, But you have the answer yourself now.