↑This format was used by the Amiga 1020 external floppy drive and some third-party drives connected to the normal Amiga floppy drive bus.
12Though the Amiga used MFM, the format places sectors too close together for a standard IBM PC compatible floppy disk controller to read (appearing as one 5632-byte physical sector per track).
↑Format used by rare third-party drives with quad density disks; such drives were usually switchable between 80-track and 40-track (A1520/PC-compatible) operation.
↑Format used by third-party gcrdisk.device driver in order to use PC-standard HD floppy drives (which rotated at a fixed 300rpm) via the Amiga floppy drive bus. The Amiga's floppy controller could not keep up with the data rate needed for MFM recording on HD floppies without reducing rotational speed, so the third party driver used an alternate GCR mode.
↑16 sector filesystems require a compatible disk controller (PROM update) and Apple DOS 3.3 or later.
↑While IBM didn't include an 8-inch floppy drive option on any of their PCs and PC DOS, MS-DOS 1.25 supported 8-inch disks and added support for higher capacities in version 2.0. MS-DOS' predecessor 86-DOS used 8-inch diskettes as well.
↑Rare format appearing on some early PC/XT clones using quad-density disks.
↑These variations are known as DMF diskettes, used for a time to pack more data on to each disk for software distribution.
123456Inner 3 tracks of 8 sectors/track format are unused.
↑The PC98 31⁄2-inch (90mm) formats are also known as "3Mode" floppy disks, usable on IBM PC compatibles with a 3-mode floppy drive.
↑The two sides are managed as two independent 160KB disks
↑The two sides are managed as two independent 320KB disks
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↑"FDD-441大容量フロッピーディスク駆動装置の開発"[Development of FDD-441 Large-Capacity Floppy Disk Drive](PDF). hitachihyoron.com. August 3, 1984. p.3. Retrieved November 7, 2023.