What USB PCI Card for G4?

[Texas Mac Man]

I'm getting an iPod Nano & want to install a USB 2.0 PCI card in my G4 for the iPod interface. Are any of you using a card with OS X for USB 2.0? What model are you using?

[chriskleeman]

Hi Tom,

I'm not using one at the moment, but I may be in the market for one to use with a digital camera on my G4 tower.

Found this one on deal at OWC USB Controller

And this one: Another one

The previous version of the Sonnet Tango card worked flawlessly on my 9600, which gave it Firewire and USB 1 capability.

This one is the later model of the same card with USB 2.0

HTH,

Chris K

[krissel]

I have a USB 2.0 card in my DA which I bought a couple years ago by mistake for my 9600.  It was only supposed to be used in a G4 so I put it away and dug it out last year to put in the DA when I was upgrading. So far it has worked just fine with a hub and thumb drives. I haven't used it with hard drives cause I usually connect them to FW. All my externals are in dual mode cases and I prefer FW for transfer.

Unfortunately I don't know the make and the profiler erroneously lists Apple as the vendor due to the bus. But I do know it has an NEC chip in it by the ID code.

Here is a thread on USB cards which is old but may give you some ideas:

 http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/firewire/fw_usb...deep_sleep.html

[Texas Mac Man]

I got an IO Gear model GIC251U 5-port USB PCI card for $15 shipped. Posted a WTB on LEM-Swap for buying & selling Mac stuff. http://groups.google.com/group/lemswap