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CHAPTER 5 Operation and Cleaning This chapter describes how to operate and clean the optical disk drive and an
optical disk cartridge.
5.1 Operation of Optical Disk Drive
The optical disk drive has automatic load and eject functions. All of the operator
must do about the drive is to insert an optical disk cartridge and push the eject
button. This section explains loading and ejecting an optical disk cartridge,
assuming that the drive is mounted horizontally. You can operate the drive in the
same manner even when it is mounted vertically.
Figure 5.1 shows the front view of the optical disk drive. The following sections
explain the names and functions of parts that a user should know for operation as
well as methods of loading and ejecting an optical disk cartridge.
5.1.1 Appearance of optical disk drive
Figure 5.1 Optical disk drive front view (with panel)
The following explains the parts and functions of the optical disk drive (the
following numbers correspond to those in Figures 5.1):
5.1 Operation of Optical Disk Drive
5.2 Cleaning of Optical Disk Drive
5.3 Operation of Optical Disk Cartridge
5.4 Cleaning of Optical Disk Cartridge
2) Eject button/BUSY LED
1) Disk insertion slot
3) Manual eject hole