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- From: pk64380@kaarne.cs.tut.fi (Kuusisto Pasi Petri,,,SIG,64380)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: *WEIRD* floppy drive error...
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 16:13:37 GMT
- Organization: Technical University of Tampere, Dep. of Computer Science ,Finland
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- References: <1992Dec21.232946.20701@yang.earlham.edu>
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- From article <1992Dec21.232946.20701@yang.earlham.edu>, by johnl@yang.earlham.edu (John Fiskio-Lasseter):
- > I'm wondering if anyone has ever run into this problem before, and if so,
- > has anyone ever found a solution: In the last three weeks, three PC's --
- > a pair of 486SX machines and a 286 -- have come into our repair shop with
- > an identical problem. The 3.5"/1.44 meg drive will not read high-density
- > disks. It reads 720K disks without a problem. It reads 1.44M disks, but
- > only when they are write-protected.
-
- Is it my imagination, or does this sound like some kind
- of a .. *gasp* ... VIRUS?!
-
- > If not, the drive will crap out
- > ("GENERAL FAILURE READING DRIVE A:", etc.), and the FAT and BOOT sectors
- > of the disk are destroyed (interestingly, ViruSafe reports that the disks
- > are infected with Michelangelo, although they are most certainly not).
-
- Umm .. didn't read this part when I wrote the last sentence ...
- I still think it is some ... *gasp* ... VIRUS.
-
- What kind of access are you tryin (copy, read, format) ?
- I'm not familiar with ViruSafe, but I suppose it DOES check
- the memory and hard disks as well (?).
-
- I'd buy the motherboard / controller bug if the machines were
- of the same type from the same vendor, but since this is not
- the case, I'd still say it's a ... *gasp* ... VIRUS.
-
- Anyone more familiar with these issues care to give it a try?
-
- -zi
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