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floppy mode is to permit the use of floppy-disk images generated by other systems
(e.g. the flash BIOS upgrade process is performed with a special floppy and is bootable,
emergency repair disks are often floppy-based etc.). You can transfer bits from that
floppy to the IP KVM (use the upload disk image form) and boot from the special
floppy.
CD-ROM Mode: The IP KVM does not store any data in this mode. Instead, it emulates
a USB CD-ROM drive with a disk inserted. The data from that disk must be provided by
an external web server. You will need a copy of the CD-ROM contents that you want to
emulate as an ISO file. This is a byte-for-byte copy of track one (the data track) of a data
CD-ROM. The ISO file must be made available on a web server that can be accessed by
the IP KVM. To switch to this mode, type in a URL pointing to the ISO image, and click
on Commit. The system will connect to the web server and test the file for access. If
successful, you will be shown a short report on the file contents, and the disk will be
ready to use.
Please note that the only way to preview or browse the contents of the CD-ROM
image, is from the host.
CD-ROM Web Server Requirements:
• Data must be hosted on a web server that the IP KVM can access directly.
• An image of a bootable CD-ROM disk can be used by the BIOS to boot an operating
system.
• The image file itself may be any size, but it will typically be less than 700Mb.
Normally this file will be an ISO image (an ISO-9660 file system) but any disk image
may be used.
• The web server must support “byte ranges”. Persistent connections are used, if
available, as this greatly improves performance. “Read-only” access is provided;
writing is not supported.
• CD-ROM block size must be 2048 bytes. XA-Data type tracks are not supported.
RAM Disk mode: Choose the Format as RAM Disk button to switch to RAM Disk mode.
This mode is intended to facilitate simple data transfer between the remote user and
the host computer. It will be recognized by Windows as an 8MB removable disk and
assigned a drive letter. You can easily drag and drop files up to 8MB in size to this
device.
Disk Formats: When you choose the Format as... button, the disk image stored in RAM
is formatted as an empty MS-DOS disk, with a single file called Put files here...TXT.
The IP KVM is able to read most MS-DOS/Windows formatted disks and presents the
files via the Web interface. However, disk emulation occurs at the lowest level, so other
disk formats can be used if you have the tools needed to create and read the disk
images.
At the bottom of the page are the upload and download options for the entire disk
image. Any image that is exactly 1,474,560 bytes long will be treated as a floppy.
Images of other sizes are supported up to 8MB.