[Brother Bob]

Has anyone connected anything besides an AirPort card
to the connector? ie. other PCMCIA cards. It looks
suspiciously like the connector on the back of the
internal CD-RW and DVD drives (if you remove the small
board on the back of the drive). Wondering if maybe
it's actually another IDE/ATAPI bus/controller?

[seanyepez]

It's a modified PCMCIA slot, and no, nothing else will work in there.

[vmarks]

Originally posted by seanyepez:
<STRONG>It's a modified PCMCIA slot, and no, nothing else will work in there.</STRONG>

are you sure? PCMCIA is PCMCIA at it's most basic level (ignoring cardbus and PC Card standards, which are later...)

If you have an older non-cardbus, non PC CARD, pcmcia card, you ought to be able to probe for it in open firmware, and write a MacOS driver and make it work. Sounds like an opportunity for a MacHack. Here's a thought- what if I took a PCMCIA-compact flash adapter, and a CF card... it ought to work, because CF cards are seen as ATA hard drives.

Warning: all of the above was said without any testing or proof, and this thread really belongs in the modification forum.

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