Other Help Topics :: New to linux can't mount hd in dsl

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)

Many thanks for the correction Anaconda.

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

original here.