usb 2.0 external hard drive stuck

[Timothy Murphy]

Not really a followup, but a related question.
I got a very cheap (1 euro) USB 2.5 inch hard disk holder
to test a laptop hard disk which may be dead.
In any case, when I plugged the disk-holder into my desktop
the green light came on the holder -
indicating I assume that the computer was trying to read the disk -
but the desktop just hung.

As a matter of interest, where would the disk appear if this had worked?
Does it emulate a SCSI drive, and if so do I need anything in the kernel
beyond the USB mass storage option?

When I tried this under Windows, the green light came on for a second
and then turned red, which I assume meant that the disk could not be read.

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