IT Information Linux Hardware My Computing. When machine is booted local the floppy drive works fine. When booted in network the floppy drive will not read files on floppy disk. Also the files on the floppy disk become corrupt.
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It's pretty apparent that this is not a common occurance, as no one wants to risk the embarrassment of offering speculative advice. Here's a link that describes the behavior of a virus which corrupts floppy disks. The only other advice I can offer is that you should check to see if a firmware upgrade is available for your computer's bios. You would do better to disable the floppy in the bios setup routine than to allow the corrupting controller to proliferate the confusion. Hopefully, someone else can offer some useful advice.