Using a floppy disc drive... Days of old!

Hi all,

I hope I'm putting this into the correct section of the forum.
I have Kali running on a IBM T60 as the laptops native OS. I've found an old USB external floppy disc drive. I liked the idea of using the drive for nostaligic value if nothing else.
I've plugged the drive into my laptop and then pushed in a floppy. Kali sees the floopy drive in Computer but I can't open the disc to view the contents.
Anyone have any ideas on how to get it to work?

Thanks in advance!