Limitation of Liability

Those warranties in the express warranty separately agreed between TOSHIBA and your company are the only warranties given to the consumer and are in lieu of any other warranties, whether express or implied with regard to this component. TOSHIBA expressly and unequivocally disclaims the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Further, TOSHIBA disclaims all express warranties created by any individual or entity installing this device into a computer unless such express warranties are made with the prior express written consent of TOSHIBA or its authorized representatives.

TOSHIBA will not be responsible for any damages, whether compensatory, incidental, consequential, or special damages of any kind, including but not limited to, punitive or exemplary damages, treble damages, loss of use or lost profits whether such damages are sought by the end-user or the purchaser herein, regardless of whether such liability is sought directly or by way of indemnity proceedings in law or equity.

It shall be the responsibility of the purchaser herein to provide the end-user or ultimate consumer with all product documentation provided with this product including all product specification, manuals, registration forms and warranty information including product capabilities and limitations. By accepting the component(s), the purchaser herein below agrees to do so and further accepts the terms of this limitation. The purchaser herein below expressly waives any and all rights to the contrary.

Warnings:

This equipment (an optical disc drive) handled under the conditions out of equipment specifications

may cause heavy load, heat generation, malfunction, erroneous operation and performance degradation. Therefore, please handle this equipment properly in compliance with the warnings provided below. In the event that you do not comply with the warnings, Toshiba cannot guarantee the safety, reliability and performance of the equipment expressly provided in the specification. Manufacturers and resellers

of the computer system using this equipment and/or this equipment itself shall notify the end-users of the warnings provided herein and ensure them to comply with these warnings in an appropriate manner.

1.This equipment does not involve any over-current protection circuit. Use an appropriate over-current protection in the computer system which this equipment would be connected. Toshiba shall not be liable for any damages to the system which does not have any over-current protection.

2.DO NOT disassemble or modify this equipment. Toshiba shall not make any guarantee to the reliability, safety and performance of this equipment expressly provided in the specification and nor be liable for any damages resulting from such unauthorized disassembly or modification.

3.Read carefully and comply with this Product Specification in order to avoid the risk of data error in writing operation. Such possible data error would be made by any factors other than this equipment (i.e., poor storage media, misuse of this equipment, malfunction in a computer system connecting this equipment, etc.). Toshiba shall not be liable for any damages resulting from such data loss. Check whether the original data is correctly copied or stored upon completion of writing operation.

Take any necessary measures to protect your data such as system backup and/or mirroring disk subsystems in order to avoid the risk of unexpected data loss or data corruption resulting from failure in this equipment for some reasons.

Manufacturers and resellers of the computer system using this equipment shall be required to consider the safety of such computer system and data integrity in order to avoid the risk of any consequential damages caused by data loss or data corruption and any problems or accident caused by malfunction of the computer system.

SR-C8002 Rev.1.0