@Ellizamint in the context of zip drives it's a hardware fault in zip disks that can break zip drives in a way that causes the broken drive to then break disks in the same way, like a literal hardware virus. I think the broken drives end up just clicking when trying to read.
I've heard stories from the zip drive era of entire computer labs having their zip drivers broken in a cascade of failures.
Can be avoided by only using fresh or known good zip disks, which could mean checking any disks first with a sacrificial zip drive.
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