Old laptop HD to pick up with usb adaptor


I bought this cheap usb/HD adaptor cable to back up partitions
from a laptop 30gb PATA. Never used usb before except for camera image transfers. When I plug this cable with the HD on it into the known usable usb port nothing shows up. Not auto, not manual. I try to mount different combos of /dev/sda1,2,3, but nothing.

Do such drives have to be usb-drives?





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