Making room for express cards?

[Dorkenstein]

I have a Thinkpad T43p that has 2 express card slots. I have an E-Sata card and a Firewire card for my scanner and external drive. However, now I find that I cannot use them at the same time because the connector end of each card it too bulky. Is there a way to make room or use some kind of extension cable? Better yet, is there a kind of express card "hub" or something? I'd appreciate the help as this presents a serious obstacle to my workflow. Thanks.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Your T43p doesn't have ExpressCard slots. And there isn't to my knowledge, sorry.

 

[corkyg]

Agree - my T60 has one express card slot and one Cardbus slot - but - only one of them can be used at one time. I use the express card to provide me 2 eSATA ports. Firewire is yesterday's news. I have a Firewire cardbus adapter that gives me two of those - but -when eSATA bubbled up - I got rid of the Firewire drives. They are no where near as fast as eSATA.

Now that all internal drives, HDD and optical are SATA - the most logical thing for lappies is to have a simple eSATA port replacing one of the current USB ports. Then we would not need to waste an express card slot on eSATA.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Your T43p doesn't have ExpressCard slots. And there isn't to my knowledge, sorry.

According to the ThinkWiki, the T43p has both (1) expresscard 54 slot and (1) PCMCIA type 2 slot.

However, you are right in that there is very little that can be done to help the OP. Since the slots are stacked, and to the best of my knowledge there are no PCMCIA 'extenders' (think an SNES GameShark sort of thing) then he might be SOL