Pace TDC787X, Operator'S Manual

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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 must not connect an external hard disk to the USB port, or to a 1394 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 onto. It automatically chooses the one with more 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
1. Stop any recording you are making to your set-top’s internal hard disk.
2. 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.)
3. Connect the external hard disk, using an appropriate cable, to the SATA connector on your set-top.
4. Apply power to the external hard disk.
5. 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 informs you by displaying a pop-up dialog box on your TV
screen (see right).
6. Use the
arrow
and
SELECT
buttons to select YES, and the formatting begins.
OPERATING YOUR SET-TOP (cont.)
Formatting the Hard
drive. Please
wait...
Do you want to format the
external hard drive?
YES NO