Some Adaptec cards ( you don't tell us which one you have ) are supported up to Panther -10.3 and Tiger - 10.4. I have a Sawtooth using 10.4 which has a 2906 that is connected to a Umax scanner and it works fine. Other cards like the Adaptec 2930 and 2930CU also work with Tiger. The 39160 is also supposed to work with Leopard although I have never tried it. It may be the scanner driver that is at fault. You could look at " Vuescan" which is a scanner driver for those unsupported on OSX. There are other tricks too for SCSI , scanners and OSX like powering on the scanner after the Mac has booted or powering on the scanner first then rebooting the Mac.
Stewie > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:58:11 -0700 > Subject: PCI SCSI-controller and OSX > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > Hi, > > I finally managed to boot my MDD into OS9 again and am now able to use > my old SCSI-chain, MO-drive, good ole Plextor CD-writer and my still > excellent Microtek-scanner. > > The thing is I'd like to use my scanner also under OSX, I'm running > Panther and Tiger. When I open System Info I get nada under the SCSI- > header. When I click the info about the PCI SCSI-bus-controller I get > this (it's a Dutch system): > > pci9004,7850: > > Type: SCSI-bus-controller > Bus: PCI > Sleuf: SLOT-4 > Fabrikantcode: 0x9004 > Apparaatcode: 0x5078 > Fabrikantcode subsysteem: 0x9004 > Subsysteem-ID: 0x7850 > Revisiecode: 0x0003 > > Do I need some special drivers to get the thing to work? It's an > Adaptec card with one 25-pin SCSI-connector. I thought that the > Adaptec cards were supported under OSX ... > > Or do I have to buy another card? Which one would be the best? I only > need the old slow SCSI stuff. Thanks. > > Regards, Jörg. > > > _________________________________________________________________ View photos of singles in your area Click Here http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/150855801/direct/01/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
