LAN controller with bootable host bus adapter

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2005-06-30

2010-06-01

Tsai, Henry W. H. (Department: 2184)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

C710S062000, C710S072000, C710S074000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07730221

ABSTRACT:
A network controller with a bootable Host Bus Adapter, particularly suitable for iSCSI applications is described. In one example, this includes, a host bus interface, a register to the host bus indicating a mass storage device, a network interface, and a boot memory extension including a driver for the mass storage device that binds to a BIOS.

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