Introduction - Plextor PX-R820Te Operation Manual

Thank you for purchasing the Plextor PlexWriter 8/20, a high performance and
reliable CD Reader/Recorder. 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.
To get you there, we first have to help you install your PlexWriter 8/20 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.
Throughout this manual we will occasionally refer to the PlexWriter by the
general model number PX-R820T. We will also refer to the model numbers with a
lowercase "i" or "e" added to it to indicate internal or external, respectively. For
your purposes, all references apply to the PlexWriter 8/20 CD-R drive. (CD-R is a
common abbreviation for CD-Recordable drives and recordable CD media.)
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 millions of 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,
operate, and troubleshoot your drive. If you run into an unsolvable problem,
however, please contact us (see Chapter 13 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 an uncooperative 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 take your drive back to where
you bought it until you have spoken with one of our tech support reps.
This manual is designed to be followed in sequence. It is aimed primarily
at those who will connect their PlexWriter 8/20 drive to a PC.
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:
— CHAPTER 1 —

Introduction

Mac users should look for this symbol:
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