JSP - Johnson's Server Project
SERVER Goals - Operating System Selection

I attempted all 4 of the popular types of Unix Operating systems on a server consisting of:
1 - 80 GB Hard Drive (Connected to motherboard IDE=0) for use by the Operating System
8 - 160 GB Hard Drives (Connected to 4 - PCI Dual IDE Controller Cards)

All Operating Systems had problems, apparently partly due to the 4 - PCI IDE Controller Cards (Only 2 of which were seen by BIOS on 2 different motherboards)
I then removed 2 of the Controller Cards and doubled up the 160GB disks on these cards (4 per card)

Fedora Linux Linux picks up the disks on the Controller Cards first, then finds those attached to the motherboard.

NetBSD 2.0 The install program only picked up the first 4 160GB disks from the PCI controller cards - the motherboard IDE connection was missed.

OpenBSD 3.6 The Motherboard Disks were picked up last. i.e. the 80 GB disk ended up being /dev/wd9. OpenBSD installed fine. After pulling one of the 160 GB disks, the 80 GB disk became /dev/wd8, and the OS would not come up.

FreeBSD 5.3 FreeBSD picks up all 9 Disk Drives in their proper order (Drives connected to the Motherboard are first)
VINUM was finally made to work, however during testing of loss and restoration of a drive, the file system was damaged
VINUM apparently has problems, with some confirmation from internet posts.

When I pulled both disks from one PCI controller card, FreeBSD would not boot claiming it couldn't find the OS.
Revisiting OpenBSD 3.6 Moved 80 GB Disk to 1st port on the 1st PCI Controller Card