External Cardbus Firewire Hard drive Wallstreet

I have a Wallstreet G3 upgraded to a G4.
I have a cardbus IE1394 Firewire
I want to add an external firewire hard drive. I have to have one with it's own power supply, correct?
How large a drive can I get?
What rpm?
Has anyone had any success with such a setup on the Wallstreet?
I am in System 9.2.2. That is why I want the external - to remove all my files to the external drive and reformat my internal hard drive and add system 10 to my internal.
What problems do you forsee?
Any help will be gratefully considered.
Gayle in Saginaw, MI

Gayle,
A FireWire card works just fine in a Wallstreet in both 9.x and 10.x, and yes, you will want a FW HD with its own power supply. You can also use any size FW HD...there is no limitation. I would not spend a lot of money on the fastest drive since I don't believe you are editing video, etc, where speed is mandatory.
Please be aware that you cannot boot to an external drive through a FireWire PC card, only through built-in FireWire ports.
You will need to add the three FireWire extensions to your OS 9.2.2:
FireWire CardBus Enabler 1.0.1
FireWire Enabler 2.8.5
FireWire Support 2.8.5
The above are the latest versions in 9.2.2 running on my Wallstreet. Since you are running 9.2.2, the easiest way to get the latest versions is this: Insert the FireWire PC card in the PCMCIA/CardBus slot; you should see a generic PC card icon on the desktop. Now launch your MacOS 9.2.2 Update and run it on top of your installed 9.2.2. The installer will "see" your FireWire hardware and install the two extensions it has, FW Enabler and FW Support.
The third necessary extension, FireWire CardBus Enabler 1.0.1, can be had by downloading "FireWire 2.5" here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58642
You will have to run the FireWire 2.5 Installer; then you can drag the older versions of FireWire Enabler and Support out of the Extensions folder, leaving just the FireWire CardBus Enabler extension. Now you can run the MacOS 9.2.2 Update (with the FW PC card inserted) and get the other two extensions.
Regarding OSX:
- What version do you want to run? The Wallstreet natively supports up to 10.2.8, and higher using XPostFacto.
- What is the size of your internal HD?
- How much built-in RAM do you have?

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