On a side note - Discovered a nice trick for data recovery on a drive that Mac and PC won't read or recognize... Linux.
Plugged a drive that must have had something important corrupted up to a Suse 10.3 box via USB 2 external enclosure and it mounted fine. I was able to recover data very easy. Probably won't work every time, but worked in my case a month ago. Knowledge is good. Jarod. --- In [email protected], "Brook Hinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Make sure the drives are formatted Mac HFS+. Video will not work reliably if > they are formatted for both mac and windows, even if they mount. > Make sure you have the computer set to never put hard drives to sleep in > your preferences. (And avoid MyBooks, which ignore this setting). > Make sure you never fill the drive up beyond 80%. > Make sure every firewire cable is good. They can go bad. > Make sure no cable is more than 14.5', Ideally much much shorter, especially > if you are using multiple devices. > Make sure every firewire device in the chain is on. > Make sure every port is good - on the drives AND on the computer. > Make sure your video is in a format your software likes. > It's a lot of work, but that's the usual firewire troubleshooting list. It's > rarely the drive unless you've been unplugging it or turning it off without > dismounting it. > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
