on 7/20/00 12:51 PM, Henry B. Hotz at hotz@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:

> At 11:39 AM -0400 7/20/00, Matthew Reilly wrote:
>> on 7/20/00 1:51 AM, David A. Gatwood at dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Chris wrote:
>>> 
>>>> As far as Airport goes, isn't it just a matter of bringing the cardbus
>>>> driver from i386 into macppc? Anyone know if the WaveLan driver
>> will run an
>>>> Airport card?
>>> 
>>> Dunno.  Should be pretty close, in theory....
>> 
>> It's my understanding that the Airport interface is actually some sort of
>> ATA bus, not PC card despite the similar form factor. I could be wrong
>> through.
> 
> The card is identical to what's sold for PC's.  I don't think there
> is a PC standard for ATA-in-PC-card-form-factor so I don't think so.
> I could be wrong though.
> 
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> 

This URL at Apple show the block diagram of the iBook and the Airport card
is shown on the same ATA bus at the CD-ROM.

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-
G3/iBook/index.html

The diagram of the PowerBook shows it coming off the Key Largo chip and not
the Cardbus bridge but doesn't say anything about ATA.

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-
G3/PowerBook/index.html

Is the PC card spec close to or based on ATA? It makes me wonder, it seems
strange for Apple to go this proprietary route for seemingly little gain.
But hey, we are talking about Apple here.

cheers, 

Matthew