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Plextor 12-20D Manual

Summary of 12-20D

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    Contacting plextor’s technical support department your task: learn the variety of methods you can use to contact plextor’s technical support department. Learn what information you should gather before contacting plextor’s technical support department. Your objective: know how to get in contact with ...

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    How to contact there are four ways for you to contact plextor’s technical support department: 1) send us e-mail at support@plextor.Com., or visit our web site for answers to frequently asked questions. 2) log on to our bbs (2400/9600/14.4/28.8/mnp, v.42bis) at 408-986-1569. You will find a great dea...

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    ✓ the type of vga, super vga, or other graphics card you use. ✓ brand name and model number of any other peripherals you have installed/ connected to your computer (e.G., scanner, fax board, network board). Returns you must receive an rma ( returned materials authorization) number from our technical...

  • Page 4: Specifications

    Specifications px-20tsi internal px-20tse external disc useable formats cd-da; cd-rom mode 1; cd-da; cd-rom mode 1; cd-xa mode 2, form 1 & 2; cd-xa mode 2, form 1 & 2; multi-session mode 1 & 2; multi-session mode 1 & 2; cd udf (variable packets); cd udf (variable packets); cd+g; cd+midi cd+g; cd+mid...

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    Px-20tsi internal px-20tse external rear panel power supply dc +5v; dc +12v ac 100-240v 50/60 hz., power switch ---- tumbler type: 3a, 250v interface connector scsi, 50-pin scsi, two 50-pin header type high-density connector audio output analog output, analog output, rca jacks molex connector (p/n 5...

  • Page 6: Windows 95 Drivers

    Windows 95 drivers and installation guide quick install windows 95 should automatically recognize and support your scsi controller and plextor cd-rom drive. Microsoft has included a generic cd-rom device driver in the operating system. They have also included numerous controller specific drivers on ...

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    Play capabilities. Again all pci controllers include these features. Your scsi controller must also be scam capable. It may sound like a con game, but actually scam stands for scsi configured auto magically (sure it sounds hokey, but we didn’t make it up). Others may refer to it as scsi configured a...

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    Configuration identification the first thing you want to do is figure out exactly what your configuration is and what you are trying to accomplish. Review the following descriptions and then go to the appropriate section of this manual. • you have purchased a new scam capable plextor cd-rom drive ki...

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    Plug and play installation install hardware you should be able to simply install your scsi controller, cd-rom drive, and all cabling without any concern for things like scsi id selection. First, turn off your computer system, then review the hardware installation chapter of your drive’s operation ma...

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    Other disks you have), you can try using the files provided by windows 95, but we cannot guarantee you will get scam support. Reboot your computer reboot your machine by selecting ‘‘shut down’’ from the start button. In the shut down dialog box select ‘‘restart the computer’’ and select ‘‘yes.’’ thi...

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    • it is also possible that the scsi controller you may have purchased separately is not really scam capable as you thought. Not to worry, though. You simply need to deal with scsi id selection. First, turn off your computer. Review the operation manual discussion of scsi id selection (chapter 6) and...

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    Non-plug and play installation install hardware refer to the operation manual for instructions on installing your scsi controller, cabling, and cd-rom drive. If your non-pci controller has plug and play features but your computer system is not supporting plug and play, you will need to disable the p...

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    Windows 95 disk. If you do not have such a disk (or cannot find it among all the other disks you have), you can try using the files provided by windows 95, but we cannot guarantee you will get scam support. Reboot your computer reboot your machine by selecting ‘‘shut down’’ from the ‘‘start’’ button...

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    Of your board is set properly. After your ids and termination are set properly, restart your system. • finally, it is possible that your previously or separately purchased scam capable controller is not being supported properly by win- dows 95. If you used the windows 95 disk or cd to get support fo...

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    You should familiarize yourself with the chapter on termination in your drive’s operation manual. However, the quick solution here is to place your internal drive at one end of the scsi ribbon cable and the scsi controller at the other end of the cable. Your cd-rom drive ships from the factory with ...

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    Troubleshooting if you followed the previous instructions, you should be up and running without any problems. If things are not working correctly, there are three likely problems. • first, having read this entire document, you might have inadvertently copied the scsi controller support files on the ...

  • Page 17

    If you are installing your plextor drive in a non-plug and play environment (no plug and play bios on the motherboard, and your interface card is not pci but is scam capable), refer to the ‘‘install hardware’’ portion of the ‘‘non-plug and play installa- tion’’ section on page 70 of these instructio...

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    If you have a separately purchased scsi board installed, we cannot guarantee support will be available on windows 95. After the upgrade finishes, you can check to see if windows recognizes your scsi controller by selecting ‘‘my computer.’’ if a cd-rom drive icon is shown in this window, everything s...

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    Button. From the pop-up menu select ‘‘run.’’ type notepad c:\config.Sys. This allows you to edit the config.Sys file using the notepad editor. Find the lines that refer to the aspi manager (example: btdosm.Sys or aspi4dos.Sys) and device driver called plextor.Sys. Type ‘‘rem’’ in front of each of th...

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    About plextor plextor is a subsidiary of the shinano kenshi company (skc), ltd. Skc’s roots stretch back to 1918, when it began to manufacture textiles in japan’s northern prefecture of nagano. (nagano, incidentally, will be the site of the 1998 winter olympics.) skc’s involvement in the electronics...

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    Notes 12/20plex operation manual 79.

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    Notes 80 12/20plex operation manual.

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    Plextor’s cd-rom drives model introduced data transfer rate access time buffer size 1st generation dm-3020/5020 1990 150 kb/sec 430 ms 64 k 2nd generation dm-3021/5021 1991 150 kb/sec 340 ms 64 k 3rd generation dm-3024/5024 1992 300 kb/sec 265 ms 64 k 4th generation dm-3028/5028 1993 335 kb/sec 240 ...

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    Plextor (u.S.A.) 4255 burton drive, santa clara, ca 95054 web site: www.Plextor.Com e-mail: support@plextor.Com phone: 408-980-1838 fax: 408-986-1010 bbs: 408-986-1569 toll free: 800-886-3935 plextor (japan) ueno yhk building, 7th floor 7-6 ueno 7-chome, taito-ku, tokyo 110 phone: 81-3-3847-8281 fax...