Using external floppy drive

I have a TEAC FD-05PUB floppy disk drive which worked OK on my earlier eMac, running Mac OS 10.3.
Now I have an Intel iMac, running OS 10.5.8
The drive doesn't mount on this machine and does not show up on the screen, although I can hear it whirring when it is connected.
I contacted TEAC, who suggested removing all USB devices and then rebooting with the floppy drive connected. However this did not help.
Has anybody any ideas on this?

I have a memorex 3 1/2 inch floppy drive (720KB/1.44MB )external USB drive and it gets along with my iMacs.
I have legacy powermacs (performa 6360, 8500) that have specialized midi/audio sequencer programmes. For example, Emagic's LOGIC (before Yamaha/apple took over or what ever it is they do in the corporate world ) wrote a programme for Roland's VS series of hard disk audio recorders that allowed full control/editing from the software at the computer rather then being hunched over the hard disk recorder to pilot your way thru the editing process squinting at the LCD screen on the recorder even though that LCD screen is fairly large.
Therefore I can transport midi files from my performa or 8500 over to the iMac.

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