> I have 6 IDE devices; 4 of them are connected to the primary and
> secondary IDE channels and 2 of them are connected to the SATA ports
> with IDE to SATA adapter. I assumed the two drives connected to the
> SATA ports would show up as sd0 and sd1, instead the show up as wd0
> resp wd1. Was I wrong in my assumption?
that depends if the SATA controller is in AHCI mode or IDE mode.
> I now have wd0-wd5, how do I get the additional devices wd4 and wd5 in
> /dev/ ?
If you had this problem during the installer, it would have created the
nodes for you. You can do this by
cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV wd4 wd5
That makes the nodes you need.
