Those older formats use a /completely/ different scheme (CLV) that the usb drives can't access. You'll run in to the same issue if, say, you wan to access old 800k or 400k disks on a mac with a USB floppy drive. Just block level access to 1.44 meg disks, and nothing else. USB floppy drives aren't capable of low level access. Regular floppy drives are very very very old tech that's very "low level" - Things like DMF use low level tricks and hacks to squeeze more data out. USB floppy drives use a subset of the USB mass storage spec called "UFI" UFI was designed to give block level access to 1.44 meg floppy drives, and that's it. USB drives are decades newer tech wise and were only designed to help people transition off of floppy storage, and only designed to work with what was most common at the time. Short answer: USB floppy drives don't operate like "regular" floppy drives.
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