TEAC FD-55F floppy drives
https://retrocmp.de/fdd/teac/fd55f.htm

The TEAC FD-55F never appeared in the world of IBM compatible computers. Why is 
that? Because it was simply superfluous in the DOS world.

The TEAC FD-55F is a double-sided 5.25 inch drive that can write 96 tracks per 
inch (TPI) with 9 sectors per track. In other words, the capacity of a floppy 
disk is 720 KByte. 

There were Radio Shack and other computers (NCR, etc.) that used this format 
(DSQD).

This corresponds to the capacity of the standard 3.5-inch double-density (DD) 
drive. 

The 3.5-inch floppy disk format was supported since DOS version 3.2.

Introduction of 3.5” drives and disks by IBM (mid-1980s) was one reason why the 
5.25 inch drives with 720 KByte storage did not find their way into the IBM 
world.

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Further in the above web link:

Changing a Teac FD-55GFR drive to a FD-55F drive  ... or, 
How do I get my drive to spin at 300 RPM instead of 360 RPM ?

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