Introduction
Thank you for purchasing a Plextor PlexWriter 4/12max, a CD Reader/Recorder with
the performance and support you expect from Plextor. We appreciate the confidence
you have shown in us. Our goal is to put you ---- and keep you ---- on the leading edge
of CD technology. Throughout the rest of this manual we will occasionally refer to
the PlexWriter by the general model number PX-R412CS, as well as the model
numbers with a lowercase ‘‘i’’ or ‘‘e’’ added to it to indicate internal and external,
respectively. For your purposes, these references all apply to the PlexWriter 4/12 CD-R
drive. (CD-R is a common abbreviation for CD Recordable drives and recordable CD
media.)
To get you there, we first have to help you install your PlexWriter 4/12 drive properly
and operate it correctly. After that, the responsibility is yours to seek the applications
that make a CD-R such a powerful and exciting addition to your system.
For those of you with PCs, the installation process may seem a bit complicated (Mac
people have it easy). Fear not. We have successfully walked through the installation
process with many customers who previously had lived in mortal terror of the innards
of their computer.
In this manual you should find all the information you need to successfully install and
operate your drive. If you run into a problem, however, please
contact us
(see Chapter
12 for the different ways you can contact us). You will be connected to our friendly,
helpful band of tech support reps
who know their stuff.
What might seem like a non-
cooperative CD-R drive to you could very well be a 30-second fix to them. But we
will never know unless you CONTACT US. If you are having trouble, please don’t
give up and don’t take your drive back to where you bought it, until you have spoken
with one of our tech support reps.
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This manual is designed to be followed in sequence. It is aimed primarily at those
who will connect their PlexWriter 4/12 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:
5.75" x 8.25" PLEX WRITER MANUAL
Plextor manual, Carla Williams
1/2/98
PX-R412CS OPERATION MANUAL
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