> I beleive it is remotely possible on a 3400c, as the PCMCIA controller on that is CardBus compliant (I think you have to swap the > card cage over for a CardBus one).
Or, failing that, modify a CardBus PCMCIA card to fit in the existing card cage. This can be done on a 2400, 3400 or Kanga, none of which officially support the CardBus spec. > The 1400 isn't however and thus doesn't support CarBus interface cards at all, finito, period. I am not sure it has anything to do with > the 'NuBus' architecture... It has a lot to do with the NuBus architecture. No one ever made a USB chipset that "talks" to anything other than a PCI interface. If NuBus USB chipsets existed, then there would have been quite a market in NuBus USB add-on cards for first-generation Power Macs. (I know I would buy one!) Creating the chipset just wasn't cost-effective. > If you want to get technical CardBus entails 2 things - 1 is the increase in bus speed (controlled by the controller chip) and the other > is a card cage that has the grounding strip in it to ground the cards sufficiently as to avoid interference on what is a much more > sensetive high speed signal. Or at least that's what I worked it out to be.... Actually, the main difference is that CardBus controllers have their own DSP which handles most of the processing needed to make the expansion card talk to the system. On a 16-bit PCMCIA system, this work has to be done by the CPU. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
