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One of the following messages may appear or 
flash in the display during operation.

The MD deck starts the analog recording.

All the tracks on an MD are registered into groups.

The MD deck is pausing the recording because 
silence continued for 30 seconds or more during 
digital recording.

The inserted recordable MD is new, or all tracks on 
the MD have been erased.

• A pre-mastered MD is in the deck.

• You tried to edit in Program or Shuffle Play mode.

• The track is recorded in MDLP mode.

• A pre-mastered MD is in the deck.

• The function is switched to MD.

• There is no disc in the MD deck, or the MD is 

protected against erasure.

• There is no time remaining on the MD.

The editing operation of the MD is completed.

There is no time remaining on the MD.

The MD deck is ejecting the MD. 

An attempt was made to create a new group in 
excess of the maximum number of groups, or there 
are insufficient characters for updating the group 
management information.

• You tried to make an impossible editing 

operation.

• You cannot perform Net MD operations during 

timer playback.

• You cannot combine or erase the tracks due to the 

system limitations of MDs.

Adjustment of the recording level after recording or 
Fade-in and Fade-out procedures have failed since 
the system was either subject to vibration or there is 
a damaged or dirty disc in the tray. 

The power was off for a long time, so the system is 
initializing itself.

There is no more space to store track, disc or group 
titles.

While attempting to change the recording level after 
recording, you pressed ENTER without actually 
changing the recording level, so no ch ange was 
made.

There is no disc in the MD deck.

You have reached the end of the MD while pressing 
M during pause mode.

You pressed an invalid button during playback, 
pause, recording or recording pause. 

The MD deck is reading the TOC information of the 
MD.

The MD is playing the specified point for 
confirmation during the A-B Erase Function and the 
Divide Function.

You attempted to perform another operation while 
in S.F Edit (changing the recording level after 
recording, Fade-in, Fade-out) mode.

You pressed ?/1 while in S.F Edit (changing the 
recording level after recording, Fade-in, Fade-out) 
mode.

The signal was input again after silence continued 
for 3 or more but less than 30 seconds during digital 
recording, and the silence was cut to 3 seconds.

You tried to program 26 or more tracks (steps).

The MD deck is writing the information of recorded 
or edited contents.

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Tracks and other data that have been checked out on 
Net MD equipment are protected, so you cannot use 
some of the MD editing functions.

There is no tape in the tape deck, or the tab has been 
removed from the cassette.

The tape deck is ejecting the cassette.

You cannot record the tape because the tab has been 
removed from the cassette.

There is no tape in the tape deck.

You have reached the end of the track while 
adjusting the dividing point during the Divide 
Function.

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Use the self-diagnostics function in the "error history display mode" of the test mode. The least required procedure is described below. Do not enter any other modes by

mistake. If you have entered any other modes accidentally, press the [MODE] button to exit the mode.

1.

Press the  

?/1

  button to turn on the power.

2.

Press the [FUNCTION] button to select the “MD” function. (HCD-SE9)

3.

While pressing the  

MD

 x  stick and the [REC MODE] button at the same time, press the  

Z 

MD

  button.

4.

Press the  

MD

 

>

  stick to display “[Service]”. Then press the [ENTER/START] button.

5.

Press the  

MD

 

>

  stick to display “Err Display”.

6.

Press the [ENTER/START] button to enter the error history display mode and  “op rec tm” appears.

7.

Select the desired contents that you want to display or to execute using the  

MD

 

.

  stick or the  

MD

 

>

  stick.

8.

Press the [TAPE REC] button to display or to execute the selected contents.

9.

Press the [TAPE REC] button again to return to step 7.

10. Press the [MODE] button. The message “Err Display” appears and you exit the error history mode.
11. Press the  

Z 

TAPE

  button to exit the test mode.

12. Press the  

?/1

  button to turn off the power. (HCD-SE9)

MDS-SE9 does not operate independently. HCD-SE9 is required to operate this.
In this case of a service, please connect HCD-SE9.

Incorrect operations may be performed if the test mode is not entered properly.
In this case, press the  ?/1  button to turn the power off, and retry to enter the test mode.

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Display

op rec tm

op play tm

spdl rp tm

retry err

total err

err history

retry adrs

er refresh

tm refresh

op change

spdl change

History

Displays the accumulated recording time.
When the accumulated recording time is more than 1 minute, displays the hour and minute
When less than 1 minute, displays “Under 1 min”
The display time indicates the time when the laser is set to high power more, which is about 1/4 of the actual
recording time.

Displays the accumulated playback time.
When the accumulated playback time is more than 1 minute, displays the hour and minute
When less than 1 minute, displays “Under 1 min”

Displays the accumulated rotating time of the spindle motor.
When the accumulated rotating time is more than 1 minute, displays the hour and minute
When less than 1 minute, displays “Under 1 min”

Displays the accumulated number of retry errors during recording and playback.
Displays “r 

 p 

”. 

  after “r” is the number of errors during recording. 

 after “p” is the number of errors

during playback.
This is displayed in hexadecimal from 00 to FF.

Displays the total number of errors.
Displays “total 

”. This is displayed in hexadecimal from 00 to FF.

Displays the past ten errors.
Displays “0X ErrCd@@”.
X is the history number. The younger the number, the more recent is the history (00 is the latest). @@ is the
error code.
Select the error history number by pressing the  

MD

 

.

  or  

MD

 

> 

 Stick.

Displays the past five retry addresses.
Displays “

 ADRS 

”, 

 is the history number, 

 is the cluster with the retry error.

Select the error history number by pressing the  

MD

 

.

  or  

MD

 

> 

 Stick.

Mode for erasing the error and retry address histories.
Procedure
1. Press the [TAPE REC] button when displayed as “er refresh”.
2. When the display changes to “er refresh?”, press the [ENTER/START] button
When “Complete!!” is displayed, it means erasure has completed.
Be sure to check the following after executing this mode.
*Data has been erased.
*Perform recording and playback, and check that the mechanism is normal.

Mode for erasing the accumulated recording time and accumulated playing time.
Procedure
1. Press the [TAPE REC] button when displayed as “tm refresh”.
2. When the display changes to “tm refresh?”, press the [ENTER/START] button.
When “Complete!” is displayed, it means erasure has completed.

Mode for erasing the accumulated time of op rec tm, op play tm.
Use these histories as a guide line for the time of replacement of the optical pick-up. If the optical pick-up
has been replaced, perform this procedure and erase the past history.
Procedure
1. Press the [TAPE REC] button when displayed as “op change”.
2. When the display changes to “op change?”, press the [ENTER/START] button.
When “Complete!” is displayed, it means erasure has completed.

Mode for erasing the accumulated spdl rp tm time.
Use these histories as the guide line for the time of replacement of the spindle motor. If the spindle motor has
been replaced, perform this procedure and erase the past history.
Procedure
1. Press the [TAPE REC] button when displayed as “spdl change”
2. When the display changes to “spdl change?”, press the [ENTER/START] button.
When “Complete!” is displayed, it means erasure has completed.