Chatsworth Products KVM Over IP - Manual (Page 34)

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3.3.3. Drive Redirection
The Drive Redirection is another possibility to use a virtual disc drive on the remote computer.
With Drive Redirection you do not have to use an image file but may work with a drive from your
local computer on the remote machine. The drive is hereby shared over a TCP network
connection. Devices such as floppy drives, hard discs, CD ROMs and other removable devices
like USB sticks can be redirected. It is even possible to enable a write support so that for the
remote machine it is possible to write data to your local disc.
Drive Redirection Menu
Please note that Drive Redirection works on a level which is far below the operating system. That means
that neither the local nor the remote operating system is aware that the drive is currently redirected,
actually. This may lead to inconsistent data as soon as one of the operating systems (either from the local
machine, or from the remote host) is writing data on the device. If write support is enabled the remote
computer might damage the data and the file system on the redirected device. On the other hand, if the
local operating system writes data to the redirected device the drive cache of the operating system of the
remote host might contain older data. This may confuse the remote host’s operating system. We
recommend to use the Drive Redirection with care, especially the write support.