>So you have to remake your fstab entries to reflect the new mapping.
>Of course, this wouldn't happen if you choose scsi id 6 for the new drive.
>The other platforms I've worked on just map scsi id X to sdX, and that is
>what I was expecting here. I'm not saying this is a big problem or
>anything, it just confused me when I first tried to get everything working.

I, too, consider this very user-unfriendly!