gentoo@livecd /dev $ dmesg | grep hd ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: WDC WD2500BB-00GUA0, ATA DISK drive hdb: AOPEN COM5232/AAH PRO, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ST340823A, ATA DISK drive hda: max request size: 512KiB hda: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hdc: max request size: 128KiB hdc: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hdc: cache flushes not supported hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdb: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) SCSI device sda: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB) SCSI device sda: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB) hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hdb: drive not ready for command hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hdb: drive not ready for command hdb: status timeout: status=0xd8 { Busy } hdb: DMA disabled hdb: drive not ready for command hdb: ATAPI reset complete gentoo@livecd /dev $ fdisk /dev/