[NCLUG] USB to IDE adapters ?

[Matt Pujol]

Hi Gabriel,

The USB 2.0 host adapters that are out there, as far as I know, don't have
any BIOS on them.  The bootability is handled by the system bios.  I could
be wrong, though....Google is your friend.

Matt

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-----Original Message-----
From: nclug-bounces at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-bounces at nclug.org]On Behalf
Of Gabriel L. Somlo
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 12:26 PM
To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] USB to IDE adapters ?


Another thing, possibly more realistic, would be a USB card that would
go into the PCI bus, and would have an on-bord bios thing much like
the bootable SCSI cards do, so one could force the machine to boot from
a USB drive regardless of the capabilities of the mobo's bios...

Is there something like that out there ?

Thanks,
Gabriel


On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:12:52AM -0700, Matt Pujol wrote:
> What you're probably thinking of is a device that connects an IDE drive to
a
> USB Host controller (USB to IDE bridge on the drive side).  What I
> understand Gabriel is looking for is the connection from an IDE Host to a
> native USB drive.  This is a difficult scenario, I'd be surprised if
> somebody sells or makes something like this.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Matt
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