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Re: Anyone know of a bootable USB3 PCI or PCIe card?
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 10 May 2016 17:41:30 -0700
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On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 05:29:13PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
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> Any of you guys know of a bootable PCIe USB adapter
> that is bootable?
> 


Never seen such a thing. Had similar problem with non-bootable PCI SATA and GigE interfaces.

Not bootable because machine BIOS is too old and does not have a "driver"
for the newer chip on your board. So in order to be bootable, the PCI card would
have to have an EPROM/flash chip that contains the required BIOS bits.

This makes a bootable USB interface should be easy to identify by photograph -
in addition to the PCI<->USB bridge chip, it will have one more chip
for the BIOS.


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Konstantin Olchanski
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