This was some of the info from dmesg. I do not no if this tells me that it is recognized or not.
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc
M
A, hdd
MA
hda: SAMSUNG SV4002H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DTTA-351010, ATA DISK drive
hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:28C, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: _NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78242976 sectors (40060 MB) w/1945KiB Cache, CHS=48
70/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 19541088 sectors (10005 MB) w/466KiB Cache, CHS=121
6/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache