ExpressCard/34 and FC

[beathyate]

So, I never heard of ExpressCard/34 before yesterday, and I’m wondering if maybe they’ll release some sort of FC card that pulgs into that slot and allows the new MacBook Pro to use Xsan volumes… or is that crazy?

Thanks.

[maccanada]

ExpressCard was created by PCMCIA, designed specifically to fix all the limitations of the old PC card technology. The cards come in 2 formats 34 and 54. The vast majority of products should be of the 34 format. The slot is not backwards compatible with old PC cards.

While ExpressCard supports not only USB 2 but PCI Express with theoretical speeds of 2.5Gb/s/direction the closest to fibre channel that I’ve seen so far is a Gigabit Ethernet card.

Here’s some reading for you.

~Ian

[JonThompson]

So you are saying there is potential for hope for those that want a firewire 800 port on their Powerbook intel (the Powerbook name precludes PowerPC, so this is still a Powerbook in my mind.)

[Anonymous]

I think you mean preceeds, not precludes
But I agree MacBook is about as bad as Lisa, name-wise.

But I’ve got one on order, nomenclature aside. I want to try using grub to bootstrap winders onto it, or at least get wine up and running.

[maccanada]

There is (I think) one FW 800 card already from Xterasys, BUT it’s of the /54 variety of ExpressCard, so not compatible with the MacBook Pro’s /34 slot. But at least it gives hope 🙂

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