Using An External Hard Disk; Lightning Storms - Pace TDC577X 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 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 outlet 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).

Occasionally, a lightning storm may affect your set-top. It may appear that it has stopped working, but

you can easily restore its operation as follows.

Unplug your set-top's power cord at the wall AC outlet. Then plug this power cord in again at the

wall AC outlet (and, if there is a switch by this outlet, switch it to its ON position).

OPERATING YOUR SET-TOP (cont.)

Formatting the Hard

drive. Please

wait...

Message for a new external hard disk

Do you want to format the

external hard drive?

YES

Message if the external hard disk has

previously been formatted on a PC.

Use the arrow and select buttons to

choose.

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