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Alpha Media Gateway

Hardware

There are a number of features of the Alpha Media Gateway

device that you might want to interact with.

External Hard Drive

You can expand the amount of hard drive storage on your Alpha Media Gateway

by connecting a DVR-certiﬁed eSATA external hard drive.

When you ﬁrst insert the external drive into the Alpha Media Gateway, you’ll see

a dialog on all connected Alpha Media Players indicating that the drive needs to

be formatted. You can choose to respond on any Alpha Media Player; 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 Alpha Media

Gateway, you can eject an external hard drive using any Alpha Media Player.

To disconnect an external hard drive, from any Alpha 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 Alpha Media

Gateway.

2. Wait for the conﬁrmation on all of your Alpha Media Players that the Alpha

Media Gateway recognizes the external hard drive. You will receive this conﬁr-

mation on all Alpha 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 sched-

uler 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

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.

3. Select disconnect, and then press OK.

4. You may be presented with a message that the drive is still busy. If this hap-

pens, please repeat the disconnect process at a later time.