PCMCIA card firewire work on old laptop?

Hey!
I am trying to find a CD burner for my old WallStreet G3 233. I was wondering: if I were to buy a firewire PCMCIA card, would that (somehow) operate at the same speed as the SCSI port on the back of my machine?
See, I doubt it will because I already have a 2 port USB 2 card but it will only deliver USB 1 speeds (even though it's USB 2).
It will be hellish to find one of those old square SCSI adapters... unless I can actually find one that is either true USB2 or firewire. If I can, I will be the happiest guy on earth! Anyone know of any fixes for these problems?

Hi, Shane. A Wallstreet running OS 9.x can use a FireWire 400 PC card adapter. It should transmit data faster than your built-in SCSI port does, and it will certainly be faster than USB 1.1 (which is all you'll get on the Wallstreet, unless you upgrade to OS X 10.2.8 or 10.3.4 or higher to gain USB 2 support). So a FireWire CD burner is a possibility for you. But be aware that there were some very good SCSI CD burners made a few years ago, especially by Yamaha, and they occasionally appear on Ebay at very reasonable prices. I still have and occasionally use my old 4x4x16x Yamaha SCSI CD-RW, which I got when it was brand new and the fastest burner money could buy for a Mac (!!). I also have the two different (and very expensive — about $50 each new) HDI-30 SCSI adapter cables for the Wallstreet: one for connecting peripherals, the other for using my PB in SCSI Disk Mode, which I used to do to back up its hard drive.
FireWire 400 (but not FW 800) is fully supported in OS 9, unlike USB 2. Here is one inexpensive FW 400 adapter card, though there are many others to choose from. One caution: it would probably be advisable to stay away from the combination FW and USB cards. They seem to be troublesome more often, especially in OS 9, than one-trick-pony cards.

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