New to linux can't mount hd in dsl

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: New to linux can't mount hd in dsl
started by: ghost_rider176

Posted by ghost_rider176 on May 09 2006,02:54

I'm having trouble locating my SATA hard drive in DSL. Couldn't find any wikis or howtos on it. Any tips on what I might do to successfully mount it so I can access my files? Btw, it's an NTFS filesystem.

Posted by piccolo on May 09 2006,10:04

Read this post:< Accessing Windows Hard Drive, For a complete and utter n00b >
The filesystem is NTFS then read the post written by Kerry:< Help!! Recovering windows data with DSL! >

Posted by ghost_rider176 on May 10 2006,01:50

I went to emelfm and looked for my hd but nothing was in there. When I boot using the Knoppix live cd it automounts it as device sda1 but when booting from the DSL live cd it insists that device sda1 doesn't exist.

Posted by piccolo on May 10 2006,08:50

sda1?. An USB device could be labeled: sda (if several: sdb, sdc, and so on) by DSL but a SATA hard disk would have to be labeled: hda (if several: hdb, hdc, and so on).

Posted by kerry on May 10 2006,11:55

Could try adding the missing line in /etc/fstab->

/dev/sda /mnt/sda ntfs noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=1001,gid=50 0 0

Also create a folder to mount in /mnt name it sda.

Posted by anaconda on May 11 2006,08:06

DSL doesn't support SATA drives! So there isn't any way to mount it!

You have to use DSL 2.1 (b?) which has SATA support, OR use DSL-N which also supports SATA.

And SATA drive is indeed "sda" not "hda".
"sda", "sdb" etc. means it is a scsi device or emulates scsi (like USB and SATA do)

Posted by piccolo on May 11 2006,09:13

Many thanks for the correction Anaconda.

Posted by ghost_rider176 on May 12 2006,01:41

Oh wow, thanks anaconda. At least I know now : /