Hard drive question

[Rusty]

I have a friend working with a Linux system that keeps having
hard drive crashes. (bad batch of drives?) Anyway, is there a
quick command to check and see if the system is recognizing the
new drive? I know there is, but can't pull it out of my feeble
brain...

Thanks

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