Western Digital HD

[WorldWideOliver]

hi, i havent posted in a while, but i ran into a problem recently
bought a new Western Digital HD for my ppc g5 (WD3200AAKS, 300GB)
when i examine it with disk utility (mac) it recognizes it and lists under "Connection ID"

Device 0, "B (lower)"

however, it doesnt show up as hdb
i tried to install gentoo but it simply doesnt recognize the hard drive
it sees hda
but under /dev theres no such thing listed as hdb
i tried mac-fdisk /dev/hdb
but it complained that there was no such thing as hdb
under disk utility i tried erasing it, partitioning it, etc.
no avail

any ideas?
if you havent noticed, im not really a hardware genius, so im rather lost as to why mac seems to deal fine with the hd although it theoretically doesnt exist under /dev
thanks

[Segfault]

Welcome to the forums!

mac-fdisk -l

This will list all hard drives available to Linux kernel.

[WorldWideOliver]

Thanks, got it lol
It was listed under sdb
Although I can't think of a reason why it would be. Anyways, thanks, i finished the installation.....and now its severely broken lol, I'll return in another thread haha....
Thanks again

[varelg]

WorldWideOliver, does it say anywhere on the package that it's a SCSI disk?

[bigtomrodney]

To my knowledge all IDE, SCSI and SATA drives are now treated the same. There was a merge to one of the drivers a few years back and every drive is reported as sd? now.

[Segfault]

Correct, using new libata to access IDE drives results in sd? devices. One can still have hd? devices by using old EIDE interface in kernel configuration.
WD3200AAKS is SATA, BTW.