Introduction
Thank you for purchasing a Plextor 12/20PleX, a 12/20 speed CAV CD-ROM drive
meant for the professional and power user. The 12/20PleX is the most reliable and
highest performance CAV CD-ROM drive available in its class. The 12/20PleX is also
the first CAV CD-ROM drive manufactured by Plextor. The throughput of CAV
CD-ROM drives varies throughout the disc. With the 12/20PleX you are guaranteed
a minimum of twelve speed performance and will experience twenty speed perform-
ance with certain CD-ROM discs and applications. For customers that require a
constant 1.8 MB/sec. transfer speed across the entire disc, Plextor offers the 12PleX
twelve speed CLV CD-ROM drives (PX-12CS caddy loading model and the PX-12TS
tray loading model).
Throughout the rest of this manual we will use the model numbers when necessary
to distinguish between internal (PX-20TSi) and external (PX-20TSe) drives. We may
also simply use 12/20PleX to refer to all drives.
We appreciate the confidence you have shown in us. Our goal is to put you----and
keep you----on the leading edge of CD-ROM drive performance. To get you there, we
first have to help you install your 12/20PleX drive properly and operate it correctly.
After that, the responsibility is yours to discover the applications that make a CD-ROM
drive such a powerful and exciting addition to your system.
For those of you with PCs, the installation process may seem a bit complicated.
Windows 95 has improved things a little bit. Mac people have it easy. But no one should
worry. Our manuals have successfully walked many thousands of customers through
the installation process, including those who previously had lived in mortal terror of
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This manual is designed to be followed in sequence. It is aimed primarily at those
who will connect their 12/20PleX drive to a PC.
Mac users should look for this symbol:
Users of UNIX-based systems should look for this symbol: as an indicator
of sections of the manual that pertain to them.
Many of you reading this manual are experienced computer users who have
successfully installed peripherals in the past. There probably are a number of
sections in this manual that you can skip over. However, we ask everyone----from
novice computer users to experienced computer professionals----to read the sections
marked with this symbol:
12/20PLEX OPERATION MANUAL
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