Scientific Atlanta 8300 Disconnecting the External SATA Hard Disk Drive, How the SATA Drive Works with Your 8300 DVR, Golf, Internal, External, Saturday, Saturday, continued

Connecting the 8300 DVR to an External SATA Hard Disk Drive (optional), continued

Complete the following steps to disconnect the SATA drive safely.

1.Make sure that the 8300 DVR is powered off.

2.Disconnect the power cord from the 8300 DVR and wait for at least 10 seconds.

3.Disconnect the power cord and data cable from the external SATA drive.

If you improperly disconnect your SATA drive, you will receive an error message, and you will be required to restart the 8300 DVR upon reconnecting.

Recordings are balanced between the internal hard drive on the 8300 DVR and the external SATA drive as follows:

•A recording is not split between an internal and external hard drive.

•The 8300 DVR automatically stores complete programs using the following space available logic:

- If the external SATA drive has more space available, the SATA drive

stores

the next recording.

-If the internal hard drive on the 8300 DVR has more space available, the internal hard drive stores the next recording.

Note: The following graphic illustrates operation logic only; it does not represent an actual on-screen display.

% Space Used

% Space Used