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I would agree that it sounds like a power problem. At first I thought it was weird that you can accurately reproduce it every other time, but perhaps not.
If the HDD is running and you crank then perhaps you are drawing the HDD below its power threshold and the disk goes into protect mode. The second time you crank the drive isn't spinning and therefore not drawing as much power so it can spin up.
Now, I don't know what's telling it to spin up the second time you crank... but I'd still say it's power related. But the interesting thing is that you have an Opus and they're pretty good power supplies. What wattage is your Opus and what kind of devices are you running? What CD, what HDD, what USB devices etc?
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