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External Hard Drive
You can expand the amount of hard drive storage on your Gateway Server by connecting a
DVR-certified eSATA external hard drive.
When you first connect the external drive to the Gateway Server, you’ll see a dialog on all connect-
ed Gateway Clients indicating that the drive needs to be formatted. You can choose to respond on
any Gateway Client; formatting can take up to 30 minutes, 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 software. Although
the external hard drive is connected only to the Gateway Server, you can eject an external hard
drive using any Gateway Client. To disconnect an external hard drive, from any Gateway Client, 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 Gateway Server.
2.
Wait for the confirmation on all of your Gateway Clients that the Wave Gateway Server rec-
ognizes the external hard drive. You will receive this confirmation on all Gateway Clients
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 in-
clude 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 recording 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.
Home Network Gateway Hardware
There are a number of features of the Wave All-In-One Home
Network Gateway device that you might need to use.
