Need 2 find a way 2 connect external Firewire drive2only USB G3 iBook?

my G3 Clamshell iBook only has a USB port and i need to connect my external Firewire Drive. can someone help me figure out how to do this? This iBook happens to be running 10.2.8 if it matters. Both my other Laptops are having their own big problems<ie stuck at boot only gets to blue screen n stops, but im lookin for that answer elswhere in here after i send this and wait for your answers> please i need your help!! thanx ,
sami
17 Powerbook 1.33 G4 or Titanium Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
You can buy a 3.5" drive enclosure with USB that
supports IDE, remove the hard drive from the Firewire
one and put it in the USB enclosure. Mind you, the
iBook G3's USB is the old slow USB 1.1, and will only
transfer at up to 12 Mbps and can't boot off that
drive.
As for fixing the blue screen issue, once you have
your data backed up for certain, then you can go
ahead and check and see if the following will work on
the broken machines:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
And if none of those works, let us know more about
the broken machines one at a time, and we can see
what we can do to fix them.
... wow, im sorry it's taken me this long to post my responce but it has been busy here on my mac front. thank you for all your input but everything just happened to work it's self out in one of the best ways possible. I bought myself a max'd out 2gig SDRAM,bright 'n GLOSSY 2.16GHz MACBOOK PRO. say that fast twice after a few drinks. Now that i have a working DVD drive i can just connect my USB to my ibook and Firewire to the other, at different times ofcourse, to upgrade and anything else needed. When i'll actually get to any of that is anyones guess since i plan on spending alkl my time on this wonderfull machine that for one thing when you double click open any app by the time youre lifting off that second click that app is up open and finished loading its startup and ready to go!!!! it's about time these run this fast. Thanx Again...
MACBOOK PRO 2.16 GHz Intel Duo 2GB DDR2 SDRAM/17"PB 1.33 G4/TiBook Mac OS X (10.4.7) The Mac and I share the same B-Day off by a decade 1/24/1984 and i'm 1974

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