I'm stuffing all sorts of things into my OS 9-dedicated Beige G3 minitower.
Right now I'm basically "wasting" a PCI slot with a USB/FW card. The only thing I need USB for is connecting my digital camera.
I know there are both CF->ATA and CF-SCSI adapters out there. But I want something I can swap in and out without having to reboot the Mac each time.
Does anybody know if any of the adapters out there will allow this?
My camera uses SD so the setup would be SD->CF adapter + CF->ATA adapter.
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As an aside, here's the current plan for the Beige. Why bother with this? Well for one, we're back to ALL beige. I had a good number of the parts when I got the G3. And little things like being able to use my tablet without a serial->USB adapter, having the correct SCSI cable for the scanner already, the chance to use a good ADB keyboard help.
CPU - 466 MHz G3
RAM - 768MB
Graphics - On-board "Rage 128 Pro PCI" w/ 6MB - Still haven't figured out if this is the rare DVD capable board or not, gotta sort out which Wings I have too.
PCI-1 - ATTO UL2D SCSI
PCI-2 - Aurora Igniter Video Capture
PCI-3 - Audiomedia III
UL2D-INT - 36GB 15K - mounted above the PS
UL2D-EXT- ? video capture drive
IDE-1M - DVD-ROM (potential future upgrade to CDRW/DVD)
IDE-1S - ATA-CF Adapter?
IDE-2M+S - Possibly a 2-drive RAID1 (software) for secure storage
On-board SCSI - Flatbed Scanner
Serial - Wacom 12"x12" tablet, Printer ?
ADB - Apple Extended Keyboard II, Kensington TurboMouse trackball
10bT Ethernet - 802.11b wireless game adapter
Right now I'm basically "wasting" a PCI slot with a USB/FW card. The only thing I need USB for is connecting my digital camera.
I know there are both CF->ATA and CF-SCSI adapters out there. But I want something I can swap in and out without having to reboot the Mac each time.
Does anybody know if any of the adapters out there will allow this?
My camera uses SD so the setup would be SD->CF adapter + CF->ATA adapter.
---------------------------------------------------------
As an aside, here's the current plan for the Beige. Why bother with this? Well for one, we're back to ALL beige. I had a good number of the parts when I got the G3. And little things like being able to use my tablet without a serial->USB adapter, having the correct SCSI cable for the scanner already, the chance to use a good ADB keyboard help.
CPU - 466 MHz G3
RAM - 768MB
Graphics - On-board "Rage 128 Pro PCI" w/ 6MB - Still haven't figured out if this is the rare DVD capable board or not, gotta sort out which Wings I have too.
PCI-1 - ATTO UL2D SCSI
PCI-2 - Aurora Igniter Video Capture
PCI-3 - Audiomedia III
UL2D-INT - 36GB 15K - mounted above the PS
UL2D-EXT- ? video capture drive
IDE-1M - DVD-ROM (potential future upgrade to CDRW/DVD)
IDE-1S - ATA-CF Adapter?
IDE-2M+S - Possibly a 2-drive RAID1 (software) for secure storage
On-board SCSI - Flatbed Scanner
Serial - Wacom 12"x12" tablet, Printer ?
ADB - Apple Extended Keyboard II, Kensington TurboMouse trackball
10bT Ethernet - 802.11b wireless game adapter