My thanks to all those who theorise that it was this particular
drive's time to die. It is several years old and I was thinking
along the lines that the rest of you were thinking. One thing I
haven't done yet is to see if the clock crystal that drives the
internal usb controller is still active. I am not sure what
frequency it should free run on but one can sometimes hear the
clock on a general-coverage short wave radio receiver or
scanner-type receiver.
What one hears is a signal that usually sounds like a
continuous carrier with no modulation. It's there when the drive
is powered up and goes away when the drive is disconnected.
Thanks.
Martin
WB5AGZ
local10 <loca...@tutanota.com> writes:
On 2020-04-01 18:07, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> >> Out of curiosity, I wondered what might happen if I had
> >> two thumb drives containing the same UUID.
> >>
>
> Nothing bad really unless the system is supposed to boot from one of them
> and both are present in the system at boot time.
>
> I have two HDDs (main one and backup one) where partitions on the backup
> HDD have the same UUIDs as partitions on the main HDD. This was done on
> purpose to simplify backups and to have backup HDD to be readily
> available to replace the main HDD. I copied data between the two of them
> many times without any issues whatsoever.
>
> If necessary, you can change UUID with tune2fs:
> # tune2fs /dev/{device} -U {uuid}
>
> Regards,
>
>
