I've kind of been tied up a few days after my snow outing so haven't jumped back into the scanner issue. I haven't been crosscountry skiing in a number of years but now I remember that it doesn't work well during spring skiing when the surface layer becomes crusted. My German Shepherd had an equally hard time because she kept breaking through with almost every step and sunk almost to her stomach. Oh well, it was still good to get out of the house and into the wilds.
Anyeay, so far my scsi ports have worked fine with a bunch of CDRW's I've been testing under OSX, so I know the scsi bus is operable. ASP also sees my DDS3/DAT drive although I don't have the new Retrospect software to run it under OSX yet. And at least with Vuescan I can now see the scanner in the ASP which wasn't possible before. It definitely requires the scanner be turned on before booting up in order to work at all. Interesting, back in the OS 7 and 8 days, Apple used to state that all scsi peripherals had to be turned on before booting up. Of course I never followed this advice and they worked fine, now I guess I have to listen. I haven't downloaded Silverfast yet but I might try that next week sometime if I can't get Vuescan working. Phillip, no doubt the end result may be to have to swap my scsi scanner for a usb version, but not yet. I'm sure there are a few things I haven't tried to make this one work. I may also contact the Vuescan author as Paul suggested. I don't think I will attempt the Linux route as that is pretty foreign to me. I still haven't been able to get Cups and GimpPrint to work with my Okidata OL410e so my success rate w/ Cups with my serial printer is zilch so far except for a few blurps. Hopefully that will work soon but it's not as critical now as I got my main printer back online with new ink. To surmise, I guess these are two of those sucky areas of demarcation when upgrading our old machines to OSX. Now I just have to slug through to find a possible workaround. Thanks All, Dave OS 10.2.8 s900 -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
