Mounting USB Floppy Drive under Tiger

Hi,
I have some content on Mac-formatted floppies I'd like to retrieve. I have 3 Macs at my diposal, 2 PPC running Tiger (one of which has Classic installed) & mine as below. The floppy is recognized at the HW-level (USB under system profile), but not at any level above that; eg, in Finder, Disk Utility or /Volumes.
What do I have to do to make it visible so I can access the content? It only has to be readable.
Thanks,
GAM
P.S. Apologies if this has been asked &/or answered before. I tried to find where to search this forum and it is not at all obvious. I can see (what is to my mind) a general Search box in the upper right of the page, but not (as the forum Help says) a Search Forums box.

"Again - why would the density of the floppy in the device affect whether or not the device itself is visible in the Finder/Disk Utility or under /Volumes? Once it was mounted & you tried to access it, then the density would come into play, wouldn't it?"
Well, it may seem odd, but the fact is that the drives that could read and write 800K Mac floppies spun at 3 different speeds (only Sony made these drives for Apple), whereas the PC 720K and 1.44MB floppy drives would only spin at 2 speeds. So the Mac drives could read the PC disks (usually with an extra utility in the early days), but the PC drives could not read Mac 800K disks. On the other hand, the Mac 1.44MB format only used the 2 speeds that the PC drives used. These USB drives are 2 speed drives, so they cannot read Mac 800K disks, but they can read Mac 1.44MB disks and PC 720K or 1.44MB disks.

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