Tony, You may be correct about film scanners using a SCSI-2 interface; but I believe that my Minolta Dimage Scan Multi (the original version) was SCSI-1. At any rate, I noted that the specs say that the converter/adapter supported only a SCSI-2 interface just in case there were film scanners that used a different interface or people who might be thinking about connecting some other SCSI device to the adapter or to the daisy chain.
There were and are still firewire -> SCSI converter/adapters on the market; and evidently were - if not still are - USB2 -> SCSI converter/adapters as well as USB 1.1 -> SCSI converter/adapters on the market. USB2 is just as robust if not more so than Firewire; it was USB 1.1 which was not as robust as Firewire. But now, Firewire, under its various names, comes in a number of different flavors and speed capacities. The original spec was a 400; a new spec was introduced that was 800 or double the capacity. Firewire is used by many digital cameras as their connection to the computer of choice, although there are now a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and number of pins - 4 pin and 6 pin configuration connectors in use. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Sleep > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: SCSI support on a Mac Pro > > On 11/02/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Evidently, this adapter/converter still is on the market; but it > > works only > > with SCSI-2 from what I have been able to determine. > > As far as I know, all filmscanners that appeared with SCSI interfaces > used > SCSI2 standard, even though they only achieved SCSI1 speeds 1-3MB/sec > across the bus. > > I'm not a Mac person, but I thought there were Firewire<->SCSI > converters > too, and that was a more robust solution than USB<->SCSI because FW and > SCSI are more closely related. Or have the latest Mac's dumped Firewire > too? > > Leopard seems to have been Apple's Vista! > > -- > Regards > > Tony Sleep > http://tonysleep.co.uk > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe > filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message > title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body