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Use of PCMCIA/Airport Slot in PowerMacs

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G4fanboy

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I see a lot of info about using PCMCIA adapters to compact flast memories on PowerBooks and using it (bootable)
But nothing on PowerMacs. Do it worth to try? Should be the performance worst than IDE DOM(DiskOnModule)?
The Airport slot comes in lots of Macs... But no one talks about using it for other uses in PowerMacs than holding that wifi thing.
 
The Airport slot is not a standard PCMCIA slot. It was a few pins switched around that make it only work with the Airport card and its clones. Trying to use a PCMCIA card in one will cause the machine to not boot or it just won't be seen.
 
Intell said:
The Airport slot is not a standard PCMCIA slot. It was a few pins switched around that make it only work with the Airport card and its clones. Trying to use a PCMCIA card in one will cause the machine to not boot or it just won't be seen.
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Is there a know workaround to the pinout?

It is a shame have a port wasted
 
The pinouts are not publicly available. If they were, it's unlikely that it would work as Mac OS X doesn't even know that port as a PCMICA slot.
 
 
 
The PCI adapter may work. CompactFlash and SD card based SSDs have a limited life and are not overly fast, but work well of OS 9.
 
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