Apple 5.25 Drive Owner's Guide

The Apple 5.25 Drive Owner's Guide is Apple's 1986 manual for the Apple 5.25 Drive, for the Apple II, II Plus, IIe, IIc and IIGS, scanned as 25 PDF pages.

Contents

Printed page numbers from the guide's contents list; the PDF page number is the printed number plus six.

• Connecting the drive (p. 2): to a disk drive port, to a controller card, attaching a second drive, connecting more than two drives
• Getting better acquainted (p. 7): disks, write-protecting, inserting and removing disks, care and handling of disks
• Caring for your Apple 5.25 Drive (p. 13); If your Apple 5.25 Drive doesn't work (p. 14); service and support
• Appendix A, Daisy-chain drive combinations (p. 15): chaining on the Apple IIGS and the scanning order
• Appendix B, Apple 5.25 Drive specifications (p. 18)

What it settles

• Plugging a 5.25-inch drive into a 3.5-inch controller card, or plugging or unplugging the drive with the computer on, can damage it (pp. 7 and 13, PDF pp. 13 and 19).
• A non-Apple monitor close to the drive can cause read and write errors (p. 14, PDF p. 20).
• On the Apple IIGS, chain up to four drives with the 3.5-inch drives first; the DuoDisk and the IIc External Drive go last; a DuoDisk with a serial number below 433754 needs its controller card in slot 6 to be chained; the Disk II cannot be chained (pp. 15-16, PDF pp. 21-22).
• Specifications: 143K, one surface, 250 kbit/s, 299 rpm, 35 tracks at 48 tracks per inch, 10-40 °C, 2.17 kg, 162 × 72 × 207 mm (p. 18, PDF p. 24).

What this manual does not contain

It is an owner's guide, with no take-apart, adjustment or parts list. Service information is in Apple 5.25 Drive and UniDisk Technical Procedures.

Pages that cite this document

• Apple 5.25 Drive
• Apple DuoDisk
• Apple Disk IIc

Download: Apple 5.25 Drive Owners Guide 1986.pdf