This may seem like a fairly outlandish edge case for external hard drives, but it’s one that I’ve run recently. Suppose you have an external Firewire drive connected to your MacBook Pro and then daisy-chained via Firewire to that, you have several more Firewire drives. Then suppose you’ve accidentally ejected that first drive that everything else is daisy-chained to. Then suppose that you’re currently in the middle of a render to one of the other down-stream drives and really need some files off of the drive that was unmounted. That removes the possibility of physically disconnecting the first drive to then reconnecting it to remount it, since the act of disconnecting would fubar the render.
Jul
19
The goal of this article is to relate several strategies and technologies to improve the efficiency in the collection, analysis and presentation of field data. I have limited the suggestions to only technologies that are free (but not necessarily open-source) and/or utilize public APIs so as to make them accessible to an audience who constantly finds their budgets diminishing. However, prior to getting into that, allow me to relate the context of some of these recommendations…