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A Gentle Reminder. . .

YOUR TASK:

Save your box (if you received one).

YOUR OBJECTIVE:

Have a secure container in which to ship your drive
back to Plextor, if necessary.

YOUR METHOD:

Find an empty space in your home/office and fill it
with the Plextor box.

If you received your 12PleX CD-ROM drive in a Plextor box, you should save the box
after you have installed your drive. There are many sets of hands----some of them
potentially unfriendly----that a drive might go through on its way from us to you. Our
box and its packaging material were designed and drop-tested to ensure that your
12PleX drive can endure rough treatment and still arrive in working order.

We advise you to hold on to your box in case you should ever need to return your
drive to Plextor for any reason. Unfortunately, some of our customers have not held
on to their boxes and have had to resort to some less-than-secure methods to get drives
back to us. We have received drives in a shoebox, in an unpadded express mail
envelope, and in a box filled with buttered popcorn.

We cannot assume liability for any damage your drive sustains during shipment.
Therefore, please ship your drive in the safest manner possible. We believe your drive
will be most secure if it is shipped in a Plextor box. We hope you will never have to
ship your drive back to us. If you do, however, we hope you will send it packaged in
a Plextor box.

If you did not receive a Plextor box (if, for example, your drive came pre-installed in
a computer), we recommend that you pay a packaging store (e.g., Mail Boxes Etc.) in
your area to ship your drive. The drives that we have received from most packaging
stores have arrived in good shape. If you don’t have a packaging store in your area,
call our Technical Support Department for packaging pointers before you ship your
drive. In fact, you should call our Technical Support Department to get an RMA
number before returning any drive (see Chapter 13, p. 65).

CHAPTER 2 ---- Box Contents

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  12PLEX OPERATION MANUAL

Summary of Contents for 12Plex PX-12CSe

Page 1: ...Models PX 12CSi PX 12TSi Internal Models PX 12CSe PX 12TSe External February 1997 12PleX CD ROM Drive Operation Manual...

Page 2: ...her signal cables may exceed the limits of the Class B Part 15 of the FCC Rules Any changes or modifications should be approved by the party responsible for compliance of FCC Rules otherwise the user...

Page 3: ...CD ROM DRIVE Caddy PX 12CSi Internal PX 12CSe External Tray PX 12TSi Internal PX 12TSe External...

Page 4: ...er Plextor Corp reserves the right to revise this manual and to make changes in its content without obligation to notify any person or organization of such revision or change This manual is copyrighte...

Page 5: ...Front Panel 10 PX 12TS Tray Drive Internal and External Front Panel 11 PX 12CSi and PX 12TSi Internal Drive Rear Panel 12 PX 12CSe and PX 12TSe External Drive Rear Panel 13 6 Drive Switch Jumper Dial...

Page 6: ...ddies and Trays 41 Caddy Loading 41 Inserting the Disc into a Caddy 41 Loading the Caddy into the Drive 43 Removing the Caddy from the Drive 43 Tray Loading and Operation 43 Cleaning the Disc 44 11 Ho...

Page 7: ...d tray versions of the drive Finally if we use PX 12XS as the model number or simply say 12PleX it means the topic applies to all versions of the 12PleX We appreciate the confidence you have shown in...

Page 8: ...u need to successfully install and operate your drive If you run into a problem however please contact us see Chapter 13 for the different ways you can contact us The call is toll free at our 800 numb...

Page 9: ...party PLEASE NOTE A security sticker was applied to the top of your box The contents of your box were carefully checked before this sticker was applied If it was cut before you purchased the box you s...

Page 10: ...with 4 chrome and 4 black screws X X Caddy PX 12CSi only X X Plextor Manager floppy disk X X SCSI interface board installation guide X Audio cable X 2 X 2 SCSI cable X X Plextor operation manual X X...

Page 11: ...PX 12CSe only X X X Plextor Manager floppy disk X X SCSI interface board installation guide X Audio cable X X X SCSI cable X X X Plextor operation manual X X X Warranty registration card X X X Mac dev...

Page 12: ...s to get drives back to us We have received drives in a shoebox in an unpadded express mail envelope and in a box filled with buttered popcorn We cannot assume liability for any damage your drive sust...

Page 13: ...il order vendors carry them Call us if you need suggestions on which modeltobuy WehaveprovidedaninternalSCSIribboncableoranexternal SCSI cable to connect the board to your new 12PleX CD ROM drive 2 Yo...

Page 14: ...nal drive you will also need a special bracket connector and an internal SCSI cable These should have been provided by the soundboard manufacturer They allow the internal SCSI connector on your soundb...

Page 15: ...of current such as a high powered audio amplifier microwave oven toaster hair dryer etc Keep the area around your drive clean from dust smoke and other contaminants Use a soft dust free cloth for clea...

Page 16: ...ut drive in Audio CD play mode Push button once during CD play mode to skip Push and hold down play button more than one second to fast forward Stop Eject Button Push to eject caddy During Audio CD pl...

Page 17: ...Hole Insert paper clip or other thin rigid object to eject caddy if automatic eject button does not work Turn off power before using this feature Stop EjectButton Push to eject caddy During Audio CD...

Page 18: ...rmination test block size and eject lock options Leave these jumpers at their factory settings unless one or more of the following situations pertain to you SCSI ID number If you are using more than o...

Page 19: ...al to designate SCSI ID number Rotate the dial to change the number If you are using more than one SCSI peripheral you may need to change your SCSI ID number see pages 16 and 17 Power Switch To turn p...

Page 20: ...ings are determined by the position of DIP switches and the rotary dial on the rear panel of the drive NOTE Silicon Graphics computers are somewhat proprietary and historically you needed to buy a Sil...

Page 21: ...umpers Ensure power to the drive is OFF before installing or removing jumpers To remove a jumper pull it off with your fingers or a pair of needle nose pliers To add a jumper push it onto the jumper p...

Page 22: ...f checking and possibly changing SCSI IDs If instead you bought a Plextor kit with a SCSI interface board both the drive and the board are SCAM compliant Each time you turn on your computer the drive...

Page 23: ...drive Factory Setting of Dial and DIP Switches Caution Turn the drive s power OFF before changing the setting of the dial or DIP switches The SCSI ID number of the PX 12XSe is determined by the posit...

Page 24: ...n a UNIX environment and want to boot from your CD ROM drive If so set this switch jumper ON Eject In most situations you will want to leave this switch jumper OFF However if you are in an environment...

Page 25: ...their termination removed disabled or turned off If you have both internal and external SCSI peripherals both the internal and external connectors of your host adapter are used then the termination o...

Page 26: ...power before removing or reinstalling the jumpers We recommend that you retain the jumpers so you can reinsert them onto the termination pins if you later need to turn the drive s termination ON PX 1...

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