OK, I can report now that I tried the fix that is detailed in the Apple Discussion forum thread that Kris pointed me to (thanks again Kris). This involved uninstalling the old Adapted 2930 SCSI card driver and replacing it with the most recent driver downloaded from the Adaptec site.
Well, I did it, and it made a bit of difference: now the Minolta scanning software recognizes the scanner in 10.4.11, which it never did before, but every time I try to use it and make a scan, it declares errors (claims the scanner is already busy) and aborts the scan. So, it wasn't much of a gain. I'm essentially back where I was before. But I can still boot back into 10.3.9 and use the Minolta software, or I can stay in 10.4.11 and use VueScan (thanks Brian), although VueScan is glacially slow compared to Minolta's software, and doesn't have near the image correction options. But I can still get good scans with it. So that's that, I guess. At least I can use the scanner, which is the only way I can scan my big 6 X 6 cm. medium format slides and negatives. This big old beast cost over $2000 new, and a newer replacement, with a USB or FireWire interface instead of SCSI, would cost at least that, and probably more. Cheaper film scanners can only handle 35mm. Thanks for the offer to use your Minolta scanner if the lamp blows out of mine, John. But if you've gotten thousands of scans from your scanner, maybe I can do the same with mine, so I hope I'll never have to take you up on your offer and buy or borrow yours or something. Besides, you mentioned you have a few thousand more of your own slides to scan, so your scanner will be busy for a long time. Hope the lamp holds out! If you ever locate a source of replacement lamps for these Minolta Dimage Scan Multi scanners, please let me know. My manual says it's a "triphosphor white fluorescent lamp," but gives no brand or part number. I have some old Polaroid Sprintscan 35mm slide scanners lying around here, and each one of them has a spare fluorescent lamp stored inside. I wonder, if I were to open the Minolta scanner up, would I find an extra lamp stashed in there too? Probably not, or the manual would have mentioned it. But if/when it the lamp burns out I'll look there first. Would the Polaroid lamps fit the Minolta? That's another thing I'll try when the emergency arises. Thanks to all who helped, I appreciate it! Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
