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External Hard Drive
You can expand the amount of hard drive storage on your Buckeye Media Gateway
by connecting a DVR-certified eSATA external hard drive.
When you first insert the external drive into the Buckeye Media Gateway, you’ll see a
dialog on all connected Media Players indicating that the drive needs to be formatted.
You can choose to respond on any Media Player; formatting can take up to 30 min-
utes, and you will lose any existing content on the drive. You will receive notification
when the formatting is complete.
Before you physically disconnect an external hard drive, you must eject it using soft-
ware. Although the external hard drive is connected only to the Buckeye Media Gate-
way, you can eject an external hard drive using any Media Player. To disconnect an
external hard drive, from any Media Player, go to the Settings category on the main
menu and choose External Hard Drive. Choose disconnect and wait for notification
that you may now disconnect the drive.
Setting Up Your External Hard Drive:
1.
Plug the eSATA connector into the eSATA port on the rear of the Buckeye Media
Gateway.
2.
Wait for the confirmation on all of your Media Players that the Buckeye Media
Gateway recognizes the external hard drive. You will receive this confirmation on
all Media Players and can respond on any that’s convenient.
3.
If this is the first time this hard drive has been connected to this system, or if the
hard drive is not properly formatted for any reason, the system will ask if you want
to reformat the external hard drive. (Reformatting deletes all data on the hard
drive). Select yes to confirm the reformatting of the external hard drive.
4.
Once the external hard drive is recognized and properly formatted, the scheduler
will include the additional space in scheduling decisions.
Disconnecting Your External Hard Drive:
Disconnecting an external hard drive while it is in use (playing a recording or re-
cording a show), can result in corrupting stored data.
1.
Manually stop all recordings in progress by selecting the program card in the main
menu, and then choosing stop recording.
2.
In the Settings category, select the External Hard Drive card.
3.
Select disconnect, and then press OK.
4.
You may be presented with a message that the drive is still busy. If this happens,
please repeat the disconnect process at a later time.
