the problem is that I find a lot of different FRUs and I don't find the correct one. like this one, attached to the correct drive but with a different FRU from the original one. https://www.ebay.com/itm/326067665790 or even this one...

Hi, no I was testing the addressing, however I tried with other drives I had from old IBMs but nothing, I have to find its original cable. :(

Hi and thanks for the reply but I already have the cable too. The problem I have to solve is that the parallel port of the dock II gives me an error when I test it from the bios. If I remove the connection to the floppy the test is ok. I probably need to verify that the 2000 works correctly on...

It seems like the only way to find the cable but it is practically very rare. Maybe someone here in the forum has a pair.....:sneaky:

Thanks for the reply but maybe I explained myself badly. Naturally the floppy has parallel but I meant that at the operating system or bios level, the port that the floppy normally uses has a defined irq (5 and 7). I tried to redirect from the bios and assign the IRQ to the parallel but...

Hi,thanks to all. I apologize for writing in Italian but the portal automatically translated the post for me. Yes, I have read all the sources you indicated and I thank you. I have the original FDD 1.44 but not the cable which from what I see is unobtainable or extremely expensive with shipments...

Ciao a tutti e grazie agli admin per la registrazione! Il 701c butterfly funzionante , ho l'unità floppy ma non il cavo. sto provando a fargli leggere un floppy IBM 27l4378 su porta parallela del port replicator. Pensate che sia possibile?Potreste darmi un aiuto? grazie mille.