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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