Question about booting from the pcmcia slot with a SATA card

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Question about booting from the pcmcia slot with a SATA card

#1 Post by mazzinia » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:27 pm

Hi,

don't know if this question is generic or influenced by the particular thinkpad model but... would and X31 with a sata addon pcmcia card be able to boot from an external hd ?
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#2 Post by pxa270 » Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:48 pm

I bet not. To be bootable, a device needs BIOS support in the first step (after that also support from the OS/bootloader). I don't know any ThinkPad BIOS after the 570/600/770 generation that supports booting anything connected to the PCMCIA/PCCard bus.
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