I have an update. I haven't tried the G5 again since the last time I posted as I decided it was getting a bit futile.
Instead I had a brainwave and ended up ordering a cheap Firewire card for my ancient PC - the one that the G5 replaced! It's scanning a slide right now. The card cost me $25 including shipping so I'm a happy camper. I didn't even have to upgrade the OS - it's all running happily under Windows ME(!). So my current plan is to sell the G5 for parts... after I come up with a way to scrub the hard drives as I don't have anything else with a SATA plug. Cheers, Dave On Jan 30, 2014, at 2:08 pm, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I started up my old G5 to do some slide scanning today but it seems to be on > the blink. At first I had some strange problems communicating with the > scanner but it came right and I got a couple of scans done. [snip] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
