USB card for Beige G3

[Yoda]

OK, absent a working solution to reading an install CD on my G3/266, I've decided that I need to try and backup the existing HD, to copy that back to a replacement. USB is the obvious, and it has 3 PCI slots of course.

So, next question is, does anyone know of a PCI USB card (don't mind how many ports it has) which is compatible? There's one on eBay (PC Concepts) but the seller is a jerk - takes the money, issues a shipping number, and never ships.

The G3 isn't in a place I can reach it with a network.

On edit: It's running Mac OS 9.0

 

[speakers]

ADS Technologies USBX-500 is what's in my G3 Minitower. Reliable 2-port card.

 

[Yoda]

That looks like it could be perfect for the job - I even see what I guess are extensions which may be right for this: USB_Card_Support_1.4.1

I think I'll give that a try!
Thanks!

 

[officer960]

ADS Technologies USBX-500 is what's in my G3 Minitower. Reliable 2-port card.

Sorry for the necro-post but I have this card in my G3 300 Beige desktop and I can not get it to be seen by system profiler. I did a fresh install of 9.2.2. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

 

[officer960]

After a few days of messing with this I stumbled on this helpful information at Discussions Apple.com Based on the information in that discussion I was able to get USB working on my Beige G3 300mhz desktop with the ADS Tech card.

Install OS 9.2.2 then use software called TomeViewer to extract these USB extensions from an OS 9.1 install CD:

HID Library 1.4.6
Serial ShimLib 1.4.6
USB Device Extension 1.4.6
USB Mass Storage Support 2.0.9
USB Software Locator 1.4.6
USB Support 1.4.6

Reboot the Mac with extensions disabled (hold SHIFT key at boot).
Back up the above listed files from the 9.2.2 extensions folder (just in case)
Replace them with the same named files from 9.1.

it took a 2nd re-boot but USB just magically started working. Limited to 128mb thumb drives it seems and limited to USB 1.1 speeds (obviously).

Keyboard, mouse and 128mb thumb drive are all working. Unfortunately I only have ONE 128mb thumbdrive. 🫤