Anatomy of a hang

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Originally Posted by Jebediah

I'd bet my bippy it is power related.

Acutally it shows little indication of being power related. This made more obvious when first learning what the many functions are inside a power supply AND how computers (such as the one on a disk drive) are both designed and damaged. Actually it looks more like classic static electric damage. But that is only one of a long list of possibilities that requires better details from UT. Original problem did not sound like a disk drive problem. But again, insufficient details were not provides.

For example, what could be causing all problems? An improperly crimped wire in the disk drive cable. But again, only wild speculation from a long list of possible reasons.

The reason why I am answering this is that those who don't know why failure happen then just to the myths promoted by power strip protector vendors. The lights dimmed - therefore it must be a surge. How does a voltage drop become a massive voltage increase. But again, this is how myths are promoted - technical details never learned before declaring a conclusion - or why George Jr could preach that Iraq was a threat to the US - the mythical WMDs. It is why military academies graduate engineers - people who learn why underlying facts and details must first be learned.

The claims of 'power related' damage is just too often a myth for too many reasons. Often found where people shotgun rather than first learn facts. Those claims of WMDs - classic example of shotgun reasoning.