I still have one of those dinosaurs but I never thought about needing a special cable.................
I still have a box of about 20 new in packaging. I got them free decades ago from a client who was upgrading to 3.5 floppies. I have a bunch of those too. Every few years somebody needs data read off a 3.5 but hardly ever off a 5.25 anymore.
I have some of my old college stuff on 5.25 floppy's. just purchased software so I could get my books out and relearn some of that stuff. now I look at the back of the drive and wonder how I got it to run on an xp machine without any special cable....????