User Feedback :: dsl 1.1

DSL seems to work all right, great on an old machine-- I'm a dsl newbie -- the only problem is with my zip drive. It is added as /dev/sda in /mnt and I find it impossible to mount it : error messages appear on the xterm: bad block device.

though I added vfat to the /etc/fstab file it is no better.

Shouldn't it be sdax instead of plain sda for one thing?

I don't seem to find enough information about mydsl -- documentation is a little scarce for newbies like me... I know what it takes to write full documentation though, so I'm not complaining.

Can you tell me if it's possible to write on an NTFS partition from DSL? (just a question, I don't need to but other people may).

Cheers, :;):

Maybe the zip disk is not formatted? Or maybe you don't have a disk in the drive at all. This is a guess, but i'm thinking that if there was no disk in during the detection process, DSL wouldn't know to use sdaX in fstab.

Your zip disk probably does not have a standard hard drive partition table.

Here is an example of a way to mount it:

sudo su
mkdir /mnt/sda
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/sda

This assumes that your drive is located at /dev/sda and that your drive has already been formatted as FAT or FAT32 filesystem.

original here.