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- Page 1 Models PX-12CSi/PX-12TSi Internal Models PX-12CSe/PX-12TSe External February 1997...
- Page 2 The laser beam emitted from the optical pickup is invisible. Accordingly: Do not open the optical pickup housing. Obtain service only from Plextor-authorized personnel. CAUTION To disconnect the CD-ROM drive from an electrical current, pull out the power plug.
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Page 3: Cd-Rom Drive
CD-ROM DRIVE Caddy PX-12CSi Internal PX-12CSe External Tray PX-12TSi Internal PX-12TSe External... - Page 4 Further, 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.
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
Rear Panel ..... 12 PX-12CSe and PX-12TSe (External Drive) Rear Panel ..... 13 6. - Page 6 14. Specifications ..... 66 About Plextor ......68...
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Page 7: Introduction
SCAM compliant SCSI interface board). We will discuss this capability in more detail in Chapter 6. The 12PleX is the first Plextor CD-ROM drive released as both a tray version and caddy loading version. - Page 8 CHAPTER 1 ---- Introduction 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 the innards of their computers.
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Page 9: Box Contents
Compare what you find in the box with the tables on the following pages. What you should find in your Plextor box depends on two factors: 1) what configu- ration you purchased; and 2) what the company that sold you the box put in----or took out----while it was in their possession. -
Page 10: Internal Drives
12PleX Internal Drives CD-ROM drive (Caddy) (Tray) Side rails with 4 chrome and 4 black screws Caddy (PX-12CSi only) Plextor Manager floppy disk SCSI interface board & installation guide Audio cable SCSI cable Plextor operation manual Warranty registration card Extra jumpers for setting drive... -
Page 11: External Drives
12PleX External Drives CD-ROM drive (Caddy) (Tray) Caddy (PX-12CSe only) Plextor Manager floppy disk SCSI interface board & installation guide Audio cable SCSI cable Plextor operation manual Warranty registration card Mac device drivers manual & disk CHAPTER 2 ---- Box Contents... -
Page 12: A Gentle Reminder
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. -
Page 13: What Else Do I Need
Inventory your current computer system; check list below. If you are a PC owner and you purchased a Plextor box labeled ‘‘Drive with SCSI Interface Kit,’’ your needs are simple: none. The same holds true if you are a Mac owner and purchased a Plextor box labeled ‘‘Drive with Mac Kit.’’... - Page 14 CHAPTER 3 ---- What Else Do I Need? If you purchased your SCSI interface board several months or years before you purchased your 12PleX drive, you may need to update your device drivers. See the discussion about device drivers in Chapter 9 of this manual. 3) You own a soundboard that has a SCSI interface built into it (e.g., Sound Blaster SCSI II).
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Page 15: Precautions
Please read this manual carefully and keep it handy for easy reference. Use this manual for installation, operation, and troubleshooting. See your dealer, or call Plextor’s Technical Support Department, should your drive require repair or service. Do not put your computer monitor (or any other device weighing more than 30 lbs.) on top of the 12PleX external drive. -
Page 16: Drive Features
---- CHAPTER 5 ---- Drive Features YOUR TASK: Get to know your drive. YOUR OBJECTIVE: Learn how to operate different features of the drive. Learn what goes where. Learn some terms that will be used elsewhere in the manual. YOUR METHOD: Match the parts of your drive to the diagrams below. -
Page 17: Rear Panel
ON/BUSY Indicator : Yellow when power is on. Flashing when disc is inserted and being accessed. Off when disc is inserted and not being accessed. DISC Indicator: Green when power is on and disc is inserted. Off if no disc is inserted. -
Page 18: Px-12Csi And Px-12Tsi (Internal Drive) Rear Panel
CHAPTER 5 ---- Drive Features DISC Indicator: Green when power is on and disc is inserted. Off if no disc is inserted. Volume Control: Controls volume of headphone jack. This control has no effect on the rear-panel audio outputs. Headphone Jack: Stereo mini-jack for headphones and powered speakers. PX-12CSi Internal Caddy Drive----REAR PANEL PX-12TSi Internal Tray Drive----REAR PANEL SCSI Interface Connector... -
Page 19: Px-12Cse And Px-12Tse (External Drive) Rear Panel
PX-12CSe External Caddy Drive----REAR PANEL PX-12TSe External Tray Drive----REAR PANEL SCSI Interface Connector In and Out DIP Switches: Use to set parity, term, test, block size, and eject lock options. Leave these switches at their factory settings unless either, or both, of the following... -
Page 20: Drive Switch/Jumper/Dial Settings
(PC, Mac, Sun, Silicon Graphics, DEC, etc.) that can use SCSI peripherals. To provide this flexibility, Plextor gives its customers options on how a drive can be set before it is installed. On an internal drive, settings are determined by the position of jumpers on the jumper block at the rear of the drive. -
Page 21: Px-12Xsi Internal Drive
If the CD-ROM drive is the only SCSI peripheral you will use with your computer, you do not need to boot from the CD-ROM drive in a UNIX environment, and if you do not plan to use the Eject Lock feature, skip now to Chapter 8, Hardware Installation. (Take our word for it, most of you can now skip to Chapter 8.) PX-12XSi Internal Drive Factory Setting of Jumper Block... -
Page 22: Scsi Id Number
SCSI peripherals, however, it is necessary to set each peripheral to a unique SCSI ID number. Your Plextor CD-ROM drive can be set to use one of eight SCSI ID numbers. The drive should arrive with its SCSI ID set to 3. Accordingly, if you already use another SCSI peripheral, and its SCSI ID also is set to 3, you must change the SCSI ID number of either this peripheral or that of the CD-ROM drive. -
Page 23: Px-12Xse External Drive
For example, the factory setting of the SCSI ID at 3 is made by installing a jumper on pin 1 and pin 2 of the jumper block, leaving pin 3 uncovered. To set the SCSI ID at 7, you would install a jumper across pin 1, another jumper across pin 2, and a third jumper across pin 3. -
Page 24: Other Switch Settings
CHAPTER 6 ---- Drive Switch/Jumper/Dial Settings Other Switch/Jumper Settings----12PleX The remaining switches (external drives) and jumpers (internal drives) are: Parity Leave this ON. The parity check provided by the ON setting enhances the reliability of the SCSI bus. Set to OFF only if your computer system or SCSI controller specifically requests that parity be disabled. -
Page 25: Termination
. This should not be confused with termination itself. power can and should be provided by at least one device Termination attached to your SCSI host adapter. Your Plextor CD-ROM drive auto- matically supplies termination power. Any additional devices supplying termination power will NOT cause any problems. -
Page 26: Px-12Xsi Internal Termination
CHAPTER 7 ---- Termination PX-12XSi Internal Termination The PX-12XSi is shipped from the factory with its termination enabled (ON). To disable termination, remove the jumper from the termination pins on the back panel of your drive. Refer to the diagrams on pages 12 and 15 for the location of the termination pins (labeled ‘‘Term’’).
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