Floppy formats

[sirgwynz@bellatlantic.net (Sir Gwynz)]

I'm trying to access some older drivers off the IBM site,
but it requires a low density floppy to extract to.
Unfortunately the external floppy drive of my 365XD doesn't
seem to support formatting to low density format!!  Is this
really so?  If it is, is there another way of extracting
the files from the archive?  Why can't they use ZIP or ARJ,
why do they have to make things so difficult!!  Thanks
for any help.