[NCLUG] New 80GB maxtor won't fdisk...

[Tkil]

You can see what linux has found on its IDE bus by looking in
/proc/ide.  "driver" files should tell you what it found, but if it's
not loading ide-disk, you're out of luck.  Is this a SCSI system
otherwise?

On one machine:

| $ for i in `find . -type d -name 'hd?' -print` ; \
|     do echo "=== $i ===" ; cat $i/model $i/driver ; done
| === ./ide1/hdc ===
| DVD/CDRW RW9120
| ide-cdrom version 4.59
| === ./ide0/hda ===
| IBM-DPTA-353750
| ide-disk version 1.10

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