User guide

DiscView PRO User Guide
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Automatic Volume Configuration
DiscView’s Automatic Volume Configuration feature,
when enabled (the default), automatically configures any new
volumes it detects on attached CD-ROM drives, changers,
jukeboxes, or jukebox magazines.
Automatically configured volumes are dynamically added,
again by default, as members of a volume set called
CDROMS (on NetWare), or DPCDROMS (on NT). These
volume sets are created on their respective systems the first
time the DiscView Server Components load. They are
configured to mount automatically on initialization and
cannot be deleted when autoconfiguration (a Fileserver
Configuration function) is enabled.
The autoconfiguration feature encourages the use of one main
volume set. The importance of one volume set is that you use
only one drive letter for multiple CDs. All CD-ROMs
accessible on the server will be accessible as subdirectories
under a single CD-ROM volume set.
DiscView for NT does not currently allow you to
reconfigure the single volume set DPCDROMS, nor
create new volume sets. All autoconfigured CDs will be
made members of DPCDROMS.
Automatic Volume Configuration is addressed on two levels;
the fileserver level, and the individual CD volume level. Let's
look first at automatic volume configuration at the CD level.
Right-click on a CD-
ROM in either the
DiscView PRO Map or
Selector window, select
the Configure... option
from the pop-up menu,
and click on the
Configure Options tab,
if it is not already the
selected tab section.
The CD-ROM Volume
Configuration dialog