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  • Is the diskette drive working properly? I have a 3.25 inch drive (old) that will read 1.44MB or 720KB floppies OK. Commented Apr 7, 2020 at 1:11
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    @john My drives do work. The purpose of this question is for when they don't work, as I'd be able to know if a given combination of drive type, disk type and formatting is supposed to work i.e. this isn't asking to fix a problem, just asking to generate reference material for troubleshooting in the future. Commented Apr 7, 2020 at 1:52
  • Plesae edit the question to include any clarification. As of now it's hard to give any useful answer due the missing intend/environment. Also, it's way too broad for a sensible answerr, as it would include anything from 8" to 2.5" with various writing schemes and dozends of different head technologies. In general, there is no such ting as a mismatch that works. A drive's hardware is either made on purpose to be able to fit certain specifications or not. Likewise it's controller to produce/consume a certain bitstream, as well as drivers and OS to handle both and the data structures as well. Commented Apr 7, 2020 at 10:39
  • @Raffzahn The question is not too vague; if you understand the essential characteristics of the common floppy drives you can answer all the questions that arise from this. Commented Apr 7, 2020 at 14:09