disk-detect software package provides Detect disk drives, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install disk-detect
disk-detect is installed in your system.
Make ensure the disk-detect package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep disk-detect *
You will get with disk-detect package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | debian-installer udeb packages |
| Package | disk-detect |
| Version | 1.117ubuntu3 |
| Description | Detect disk drives |
| Sub Section | Debian-installer |