OPERATING YOUR SET-TOP (cont.)
Using an external hard disk
Your cable service-provider may enable a feature that allows an external hard disk to work with your
set-top. If this is the case, most major brands of serial ATA hard disk, connected to the SATA port, are
supported. You should not connect an external hard disk to a 1394 port or a USB port.
If you do use an external hard disk, it gives extra recording capacity, but you cannot choose which
disk (internal or external) your set-top will record to. It will automatically choose the one with the
most empty space. The recordings on the external hard disk are uniquely linked to the set-top on
which they were made, so you cannot play them back or delete them with a different set-top.
Connecting an external hard disk
First stop any recording you are making to your set-top’s internal hard disk.
Turn off your set-top with the
power
button and then wait 60 seconds before disconnecting it from
the wall AC socket. (You must not “hot plug” an external hard disk).
Connect the external hard disk, using an appropriate cable, to the SATA connector on your set-top.
Apply power to the external hard disk.
Reconnect your set-top to the wall AC socket and turn it on with the
power
button.
If the external disk needs formatting, your set-top will do this automatically and inform you by means of
a pop-up dialog box on your TV screen (see right).
Formatting the Hard
drive. Please
wait...
Do you want to format the
external hard drive?
YES
NO
Message for a new external hard disk
Message if the external hard disk has
previously been formatted on a PC.
Use the arrow and
select
buttons to
choose.
