Version 3.10E DAS Release Notes 15
21 Dec 2001
Shared access to drives.
A client can allocate a drive in SHARED_ACCESS mode. This
allows multiple Clients to access the drive.
The drivestatus command now has new key words EXUP and
SHARED_ACCESS.
• Enter EXUP as a key word for the clientname to show all
drives which are allocated in EXUP mode.
• Enter SHARED_ACCESS as a key word for the
clientname to show all drives which are allocated in the
SHARED_ACCESS mode
New Features in Version 3.02The following is a list of new features in Version 3.02 DAS.
Up- and Down compatibility of DAS to ACI:
This means that ACI can now run with an older version of the
DAS Server. This is not possible with version of ACI < 3.02. In
order for ACI 3.02 to talk with DAS 3.x, no special options
need to be considered. However, for ACI 3.02 to talk with DAS
1.3x, the environment variable ‘SERVERVERSION‘ needs to
be set to ‘1.3‘ on the system.
Extended mode
An extended mode is implemented, in addition to basis and
complete. In this mode you can use the following commands:
• drive status,
• drive status2,
•drive status3
• volser status
•query version
• query volsrange
• get volser to side
• get volser to drive
•view
• keep
•mount
In order to get this mode to follow, configure the statement of
the configuration file of DAS in the client:
requests = extended,