I finally gave up on this and called the vendor...eventually they gave up
on it and gave me a RMA.

Armed with the RMA I decided to try one last trick......I shorted the BIOS
for 30 seconds to clear it and then loaded BIOS defaults. The floppy drive
immediately started acting normally and all problems disappeared. I then
made the BIOS changes one at a time to see if any particular one was
causing a problem. Everything appears to be working perfectly now.

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>I have a new Win98 install. This PC has two 3.5 inch floppies...A and B.
>Every time I try to copy to the floppy using  Win98 Explorer I can a FULL
>Lock requiring me to use the reset switch....nothing works .
>It started out with just the A drive but now the B drive is effected with
>the same malady. >I have run  diagnostics from DOS on the A drive and it
passed every one of
>them. >I have no problems using this A drive from a DOS Window in 98 using
the same
>exact floppy that was in there when it locked.
>There is no Conflict in Device Manager. I unchecked search for floppy drive
>in performance setup I have removed the floppy drives and floppy controller
>from device manager and then rebooted....let Win98 re install......same
>problem.>I don't have any virus stuff installed or anything running in the
background.
>I have no other problems with the computer....everything is smooth and stable.
>Non of this occurs in Safe Mode >This seems like  a 98 bug but I can't
find anything about it in the MS
>Knowledge Base.

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