It doesn’t show it on the device-notifier, or fdisk, and not sure if this will be any use to you. In windows it appears immediately as a MSD, doesn’t show as a modem or anything first.
linux-gg0e:/home/Chris # tail -f /var/log/messages
Feb 14 10:20:09 linux-gg0e smartd[2752]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 51 to 50
Feb 14 10:20:09 linux-gg0e smartd[2752]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 51 to 50
Feb 14 10:30:15 linux-gg0e rsyslogd: -- MARK --
Feb 14 10:50:09 linux-gg0e smartd[2752]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 40 to 41
Feb 14 11:05:49 linux-gg0e su: (to root) chris on /dev/pts/2
Feb 14 11:05:49 linux-gg0e su: (to root) chris on /dev/pts/2
Feb 14 11:09:31 linux-gg0e su: (to root) chris on /dev/pts/2
Feb 14 11:09:31 linux-gg0e su: (to root) chris on /dev/pts/2
Feb 14 11:11:43 linux-gg0e su: (to root) chris on /dev/pts/1
Feb 14 11:28:04 linux-gg0e su: (to root) chris on /dev/pts/1