using broken hardware again

[M.W. Chang]

I have a Quantum Fireball 20G harddisk with a broken pin 21 (DMARQ).

BIOS could still detect the harddisk geometry fine.

Under Win2k, the drive could be detected and formatted and be used 
without major problem (so far).

However when I tried using linux's fdisk on it, fdisk attempted to use 
ide-floppy driver on the device and complained that it's not a valid 
block device.

`cat /proc/ide/hdc/driver` showed "(none)" rather than the usual 
"ide-disk version 1.17".

Could I force linux kernel to use ide-driver on this broken harddisk?
The disk seems to be usable, at least, under Window$ 2000 pro.


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