Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 03 Apr 04:16 -0500, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > 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 th

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-03 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 09:58:14AM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, Martin McCormick wrote: > > >My thanks to all those who theorise that it was this particular > >drive's time to die [...] > >What one hears is a signal that usually sounds like a > >continuo

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-03 Thread Joe
On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 09:58:14 +0100 (BST) "G.W. Haywood" wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > 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

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-03 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, Martin McCormick wrote: 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

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-02 Thread Martin McCormick
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.

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-01 Thread local10
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

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 02.04.2020 06:07, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have killed an 8 GB thumb drive while doing an experiment. > > I had 2 8 GB PNY drives. One has a FAT 32 file system > and the other had no partitions on it as I had deleted the ones > that were there. > > The good drive had it's UUID ta

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-01 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-04-01 18:07, Martin McCormick wrote: I have killed an 8 GB thumb drive while doing an experiment. I had 2 8 GB PNY drives. One has a FAT 32 file system and the other had no partitions on it as I had deleted the ones that were there. The good drive had it's UUID tagged t

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-01 Thread songbird
um, if you've plugged in one device with a certain UUID and you've got a mount point and an /etc/fstab entry for it and then plug in another i suspect the 2nd device would not cause anything to happen. what you might want to do is unplug the working device and then plug in the one that doesn't

Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-01 Thread Martin McCormick
I have killed an 8 GB thumb drive while doing an experiment. I had 2 8 GB PNY drives. One has a FAT 32 file system and the other had no partitions on it as I had deleted the ones that were there. The good drive had it's UUID tagged to mount on a directory I called /flash. The fs