Hi Folks! I'm new to powerbooks and this list and hope I can tap all your apparent wisdom. I recently acquired an excellent loaded PB 3400/180, and would like to use USB with it to enable me to use an IDE/USB hard drive to back up the drives on my 3400 as well as my 8500/G3 using retrospect. I'm using OS 8.6 on the 8500 and plan to use it on the 3400 as I'm comfortable with it and don't want to change. I planned to do the MCE cardbus conversion with the cardbus 2.1 USB card but in my searching I've come to the conclusion that you have to use OS X to support and use 2.1 otherwise it runs at 1.1 speed. Can't see paying $150.00 to convert to cardbus with a Macally USB card if it's only going to run at 1.1. I'm also told the older USB cards for the unconverted 3400 are very expensive. Would appreciate your knowledge and suggestions for a solution. Thanks to all who can help.
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