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TerraBlock Manager User Mode Menus
Mount Read Only volumes as local drives
(Windows) – When selected, Single-
user Write volumes mounted Read Only will appear as local disks rather than
removable disks in Windows Explorer. They may appear writeable to some
applications, even though the volume is locked for write access at the TerraBlock
Server.
This setting should only be used with software applications that will not allow use of
removable volumes. Avid DS is an example of software that requires this setting. All
other Avid products, as well as most other software applications will not require this,
so it is recommended to leave this setting disabled.
Auto update Read Only Volumes
(Windows and Mac OSX) – When mounting a
Single-user Write volume as Read Only, updates will not occur to the volume
contents until the ‘Update Read Only’ button is selected in the Manager, or the ‘Auto
update Read Only volumes’ option is selected in the User Mode menu. A dialog box
will appear after selecting this menu option, and a time should be entered for the
update cycle. 30 minutes is the default and recommended interval.
After setting the ‘Auto update Read Only volumes’ option, the TerraBlock Manager
must remain open in the background in order to update volumes at the given
interval. For OSX, this feature supports only HFS+ volumes (Mac OS Extended file
system). For Windows, NTFS volumes are supported.
File System Emulation Mode
(Windows and Mac OSX) – When mounting a Multi-
user Write volume, this setting changes the appearance of the volume’s filesystem.
Multi-user Write volumes mounted using File System Emulation Mode will appear as
‘avidfs’ in the client OS. If this setting is disabled, the Multi-user Write volume will
appear as ‘factbfs’ in the client OS.
This setting is enabled by default and should be enabled whenever using
Multi-user Write volumes with Avid editorial clients.
Un-mount all volumes on exit
(Windows, Mac OSX, Linux) – When this setting is
enabled, all volumes will be un-mounted upon close of the TerraBlock Manager
application. Because of this, it is necessary to have the TerraBlock Manager open in
the background while the workstation requires use of the TerraBlock volumes.
DAW Mode
(Mac OSX) – This setting changes the internal appearance of mounted
Single-user Write volumes from Removable to Fixed in the OS. Applications that do
not support removable volumes for media locations will require this setting.
Examples of these applications are Pro Tools and Adobe CS4.
After changing the setting, volumes must be un-mounted and the client
should be rebooted before re-mounting volumes.
Read Only support for legacy applications
(Mac OSX) – This setting changes the
appearance of Single-user Write mounted volumes from hardware-locked to
software-locked Read Only. Software locked Read-only volumes will use the volume
attribute in the “Get Info” window to designate the volumes are Read Only. Some
older applications on OSX will not work with hardware-locked Read Only volumes. It
is recommended that this setting remain off.
