I would propose an alternate solution that should tickle the snouts of both your Javalinas and your finance people. Keep one of the 8600s as a scanner station and file server. Cost: *free* The G4s come with at least a 20GB; your designers don't really need the old SCSI storage. It isn't faster and it isn't bigger. The 2930U cards are less than great solutions. They cause sleep problems on the PCI bus and they use HD50 connectors for external devices, which requires at least one $20 cable or adapter. USB to SCSI is slow and many/most USB or Firewire adapters only support a single device at a time. The advantage of the scanner station solution is that either designer can use the scanner without worrying about whose desk it's on (and it frees up desk space for at least one of them). And, you can use that 18GB hard drive as a common file server for all your graphics files. (If *both* your 8600s have 18GB drives, you could put them in the single machine for an even better file server solution.) Other uses for the 8600: backup and disk burning with now cheap SCSI tape and CD-R options; connectivity for older printers and other serial devices. Robert Dahl wrote: > > Dear listservers, These questions straddle PCI and G4 Macs, and I > belong to this group only. We recently purchased two new G4s for our > graphic artists, who now have 8600s. > > here's the situation: > > G4-1 > Problem > want to install an existing narrow scsi 18 MB internal drive > need to be able to plug in a nikon coolscan scsi slide scanner > Solution > can either get an internal SCSI card and run both the scanner > and drive, or > buy a new drive and an external solution for the slide scanner > > G4-2 > Problem > Need to access the SCSI scanner > Solution > internal scsi card or external FireWire/USB -> scsi adapter > > Esimated Costs from http://www.macconnection.com/ , as an example > > 50-pin scsi card (PD 2930U) - 89.95 > Firewire -> scsi adapter - 119.95 > USB -> scsi adapter - 59.95 > 20G IDE harddrive - 89.95 > 30G IDE harddrive - 99.95 > > What do you PCImac listservers think? Are there any other devices or > future expansions we might have overlooked that might require a > certain solution? > > Thanks for your help, > > Bollard > > Robert O. Dahl "Bollard" > Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum > http://www.desertmuseum.org/index.html > Design & Planning Department > 2021 N. Kinney Road > Tucson, AZ 85743 > 520-883-3076 -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
