rendered paste bodygentoo@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/