[filmscanners] Re: SCSI support on a Mac Pro
I have one by Adaptec that converts SCSI to USB - check on their website. I also use it with a SS4000 - works pretty well. - John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I currently am using my Polaroid SprintScan 4000 on a Windows computer with > an installed SCSI card. > > I am about to buy a new eight-core Mac Pro. Is it possible to run the SCSI > sprintscan on a new Mac machine? Are there adapters now to allow SCSI devices > to connect to USB or FireWire ports? > > Suggestions? > > Stan > > > > -- John & Karen Hinkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] RE: SCSI support on a Mac Pro
There use to be a SCSI to USB adapter (XircomR PortGear USB To SCSI Converter - PGSCSI, U1-SCSI) put out by Xircom (www.xircom.com or tel.: 800-438-4526), which I believe was an Intel subsidiary. I believe it was a SCSI 1 version of SCSI (the first version of SCSI) that would work for Mac OS 8.6. I do not know if it is still available - I doubt it, if it will work with later Mac OSs - I doubt it, or even if Xircon is still in business. I do remember that it was expensive as compared to other types of adapters. You may be able to find it on ebay. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] SCSI support on a Mac Pro > > I currently am using my Polaroid SprintScan 4000 on a Windows computer > with an installed SCSI card. > > I am about to buy a new eight-core Mac Pro. Is it possible to run the > SCSI sprintscan on a new Mac machine? Are there adapters now to allow > SCSI devices to connect to USB or FireWire ports? > > Suggestions? > > Stan > > --- > - > 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
[filmscanners] Re: SCSI support on a Mac Pro
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/scsi_port/usb_scsi/USBXchange/ I think this is the more recent version of what I used. Mac compatible it seems. - J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I currently am using my Polaroid SprintScan 4000 on a Windows computer with > an installed SCSI card. > > I am about to buy a new eight-core Mac Pro. Is it possible to run the SCSI > sprintscan on a new Mac machine? Are there adapters now to allow SCSI devices > to connect to USB or FireWire ports? > > Suggestions? > > Stan > > > > -- John & Karen Hinkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: SCSI support on a Mac Pro
On 11/02/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > USB2 is just as > robust if not more so than Firewire; it was USB 1.1 which was not as > robust > as Firewire. Yup, nothing wrong with USB2 (so long as it's not plugged and unplugged too many times). I have lots of USB and no FW in use, never had an issue. But somewhere I read that Firewire<->SCSI adapters were an easier and simpler engineering prospect, and potentially less prone to driver issues than USB2<->SCSI, because FW and SCSI were releated protocols. That's not to say there are problems with USB2<->SCSI in practice, of course. -- 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
[filmscanners] RE: SCSI support on a Mac Pro
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
[filmscanners] Re: SCSI support on a Mac Pro
On 11/02/2008 Stan Schwartz wrote: > I don't know if the SS4000 is Scsi-1 or SCSI-2. SS4000 is SCSI-2, definitely. I'm still using mine :) -- 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
[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
[filmscanners] RE: SCSI support on a Mac Pro
It is the old SS4000 without USB. Yes I think I will keep the old PC if there is no easy solution. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/11/08 1:14 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: SCSI support on a Mac Pro Several questions: Is it a SprintScan 4000 with only SCSI, or the version 2 which includes USB 2? If the latter you're all set. Why not keep a machine which has PCI slots, like your current Windows computer? Or get an ancient Mac G4 for $50 and stuff your current SCSI adaptor in it. The old Mac and new one will network easily -- the Windows machine will cause a lot of little problems with file naming conventions, and so on, but is workable. I keep my scanners (including a SS4000) on a separate computer from my work machine because I find it easier to deal with that way. The interface card works, the scanner software works and is not upset with/by new releases of the work machine's OS, and so on. I use the same monitor, keyboard, and mouse for both machines with a "KVM switch" (KVM -> Keyboard, Video, Mouse) which cost about $50. HTH! --- I currently am using my Polaroid SprintScan 4000 on a Windows computer with an installed SCSI card. Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
