Sun Microsystems 817-3630-11 manual CD-ROM Drive Issues, Video Display Issues

To disable the Solaris Volume Manager, perform the following steps:

1.Make sure that SunPCi III software is not running.

2.Become superuser.

3.Disable Volume Manager by entering the following command:

#/opt/SUNWspci3/bin/vold_floppy_disable

4.Exit superuser.

5.Restart all SunPCi III software.

CD-ROM Drive Issues

TABLE A-3describes some issues you might encounter with CD-ROM drives, possible causes, and solutions.

TABLE A-3CD-ROM Drive Issues and Solutions

Issue Possible Cause Solution

When you insert or eject a CD in one CD- ROM drive, the other CD-ROM drive becomes unreachable.

When you insert a DVD into the CD-ROM drive, it does not work.

You have two SCSI CD- ROM drives in your system.

SunPCi III software only supports DVD data discs.

You need to select which CD-ROM drive to use with SunPCi III software.

Use only data formatted DVD discs.

Video Display Issues

When you use a remote display of SunPCi III session, use a Sun system as the display device. If you run a remote display of SunPCi III session using a non-Sun system, performance might be poor or might not work at all.

The remote display of a SunPCi III session is only supported when the display device is a Sun system.

24-Bit Display on Sun Blade Workstations

On Sun Blade™ workstations with an M64 frame buffer, follow this procedure to display 24-bit color in the SunPCi III window:

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