More UUID madness

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 19 September 2013, Mark Haney sent:
> Does this trigger a thought with anyone on what the problem could be?

"failed... queued... timed out..." sounds like hardware trouble...  But
it would have been better if you'd not edited the log.

>  I know the drive is good since I can boot to Windows. 

That's no guarantee.  Windows will quite happily use broken hard drives,
and the royally screw up when it hits a faulty part of the drive, then
(often) not give any real clue as to why.

Years ago, it was only with Linux that I found out I had a faulty drive,
and why a Windows PC was inexplicably crashing.  Swapping that drive,
nothing else, and running with the same drive contents, and it became
more reliable than I generally expected from Windows.

Even new hard drives die, so newness is no guarantee.  They can get
zapped by static during handling.  And bumping 5 inch drives while
they're running, by moving the PC around, easily damages them.  The
smaller laptop drives seem better at protecting themselves when they're
moved about.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64

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a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.