Users Guide

Configuring and Using Virtual Media 153
After system restart, the DRAC 4 IDE Option ROM utility will time-out for
up to 15 seconds (about 7.5 seconds per virtual device) when the virtual
media feature is disabled.
The virtual media feature is enabled by default. When disabled, DRAC
disables the virtual CD/floppy diskette drives from the IDE bus and generates
the following messages:
Drive Number: 0 failed to detect Virtual device
Drive Number: 1 failed to detect Virtual device
Enabling Virtual Media
To enable the virtual media feature, type the following command. The
default flag state is 0, indicating that the feature is enabled.
racadm config -g cfgRacVirtual -o cfgVirMediaDisable 0
Disabling Virtual Media
To disable the virtual media feature, type the following command:
racadm config -g cfgRacVirtual -o cfgVirMediaDisable 1
Configuring the Virtual Floppy Feature For Your
Operating System
The DRAC 4 configures the virtual floppy device as a removable media disk.
Use the racadm command to configure the virtual floppy device to appear as
a hard drive or a super-floppy drive to your operating system.
The virtual floppy device configuration determines how your operating
system will assign new drive letters. For example, if your system is running
Windows Server 2000 with Service Pack 4 or Windows Server 2003, the
operating system detects and configures the first detectable hard drive as the
C drive. This Windows behavior may assign drive letter C to the virtual
floppy if it was configured to appear as a hard drive. However, when Windows
detects your virtual floppy drive as a super-floppy drive during the installation
procedure or when it first detects the drive, it assigns a drive letter starting
with A.