Appendix 9. Precautions for Use of Peripheral Devices and Commercially Available Devices
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Peripheral device
Precautions
Printer
MITSUBISHI will not provide performance guarantee and maintenance for
commercially available printers and other external devices. Commercially available
devices may not be compatible with MITSUBISHI units or suitable for FA
environment for temperature- or noise-wise. In the case of using it, careful
performance check must be required by the machine tool builder.
When connecting/disconnecting cables, always turn OFF all the power of the unit and
printer. Startup the printer and the unit simultaneously, or power ON the printer
before the unit power is turned ON.
Floppy disk drive
The mode available for MITSUBISHI floppy disk drive is "2" (720k/1.44M bytes) only.
MITSUBISHI will not provide performance guarantee and maintenance for
commercially available floppy disk drives. Commercially available devices may not
be compatible with MITSUBISHI units or suitable for FA environment for
temperature- or noise-wise. In the case of using it, careful performance check must
be required by the machine tool builder.
Do not pull out the floppy disk or turn OFF the power during access to the floppy disk.
Failure to observe this could cause the memory contents to be erased. In case of
emergency, always perform backups by having your important data duplicated, etc.
as MITSUBISHI will not guarantee the broken or lost data. Be sure to inform this
matter to the end users.
Optical fiber cable
Optical fiber cables cannot be manufactured by the machine tool builder. Always use
the cables manufactured by MITSUBISHI. When optical fiber cables manufactured
by other than MITSUBISHI are used, malfunctions resulted from connection
problems or aged deterioration are not covered under the warranty.