<p>Ouch! That's FAR worse than my definition. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 6, 2012 9:08 AM, "David W. Millians" <<a href="mailto:millia@panix.com">millia@panix.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Tue, June 5, 2012 4:01 pm, Michael H. Warfield wrote:<br>
> On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 11:13 -0400, david w. millians wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Opinions needed on a flash drive repair service. We have a person who<br>
>> did the laptop-flash-destruction maneuver.<br>
><br>
> What means "laptop-flash-destruction maneuver"? No cutesy terms, what<br>
> happened? Did they delete everything on it? Did it start giving them<br>
> hard errors? Did they run it through a washer and drier? [Actually had<br>
> that happen with a little pocket drive - the NAND Flash chip fell off<br>
> the little PCB from the driver heat. Wasn't anything on it I needed to<br>
> recover, fortunately.] What was the technically correct term for what<br>
> they did and what they got?<br>
<br>
They stood up with the flash drive in the side of the laptop. The lanyard<br>
stayed with the chair. The flash drive bent downward at a 90 degree angle.<br>
The PCB is in two, and only one of the connections needed re-soldering.<br>
<br>
It's not the first drive I've seen this happen unfortunately. I've<br>
probably re-soldered about 35-40 of these for people from this exact<br>
behavior. So, that's the reason I used the phrase, and I apologize for the<br>
shorthand.<br>
<br>
<br>
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