ThinkPad T43, showing the "KittenLabs NVMe Boot" init message

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1. Manawyrm | Sarah (manawyrm@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 23:42:13 JST Manawyrm | Sarah

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   I already bought a proper, internal ExpressCard/34 to M.2 2242 adapter from China. Hasn't arrived yet.
   ExpressCard/34 is just PCIe x1 (and 3.3V power), just like the M.2 M+B key slot.

   This was my first BIOS mod, using a lot of crazy PhoenixBIOS tools, hex-editing and crossing fingers.
   I had to do the "crisis recovery" procedure 4 times.

   Speeds are around 250 MByte/s (RW), limited by the PCIe 1.0 x1 (2.5GT/s) slot.
   Newer laptops (like a T430) could do PCIe 3.0 x1, reaching 1GByte/s!