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

Wow, that's a pretty good setup you've got! I can see why you want to dump the USB/FireWire card...

All I can say is that you should give it a try. A brief look around the web doesn't find any Macintosh specific information, but it seems that the SCSI PC Card reader devices for Windows are all recognized as removable drives, so I would assume the same is true for the Mac. This indicates to me that the cards themselves should be hot-swappable.

I have no personal experience with this. Maybe someone else passing through does...

Good luck!
Peace,
Drew
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Be wary of desktop PCMCIA adapters that use 50-pin cables and thinking that they are SCSI. From what I've seen of several of them, they are really just port extensions to get to the drive bay adapter from the card slot. When looking for a SCSI PCMCIA adapter be very sure it's a self contained unit and not someone selling something based solely off what kind of cables plug into it. Also, a PCI based PC-Card adapter can give CardBus support, which means you can use the (likely) two PC Card slots for a USB/FW card and some sort fo PC Card video capture solution. Heck, there are FW video capture devices for cheap in a lot fo places. I have no idea how good your Aurora Igniter is, but I've got an ADS FW unit that takes composite, component, S-Video, FW, etc. that I got used for under $10.