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easily drag and drop files up to 8MB in size to this device. In Windows
Explorer, you can choose the Eject option to make the data available to
remote users.
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. SV1115IPEXT 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 that 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.
CD-ROM Mode
The SV1115IPEXT 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 SV1115IPEXT. 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. Currently there is no other way to preview or browse the
contents of the CD-ROM image, except from the host.
CD-ROM Web Server Requirements:
Data must be hosted on a web server that the SV1115IPEXT can •
access directly.
An image of a bootable CD-ROM disk can be used by the BIOS to
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boot an operating system.
The image file itself may be any size, but it will typically be less than
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700 megabytes. Normally this file will be an ISO image (an ISO-9660