I hot-mount SCSI devices with a little program called Mt Everything - works
like a charm when I've forgotten to switch everything on first.
Microtech make a firewire-scsi adaptor - US$80, one device only.
I just don't think a USB port and adaptor has the grunt to handle a 4000dpi
film scanner and Vuescan.
System 9 does it for me at this stage.
Looks more like a refurb. G3 is the answer.
Sigh.
AndrewF
>I have used SCSI for a few years now. At first I did not hot-swap
>with my Mac Classic and IIcx, but after I discovered with my PowerMac
>6500/300 that my Minolta scanner did not have to be on at start-up,
>that Toast would find my just-started LaCie CD writer and that Iomega
>have a clever thing called "Guest", SCSI holds no horrors for me now.
>It is an excellent system whose termination requirement is a myth (on
>all my machines anyway). I still have a Zip 250, Minolta Dimage Scan
>Elite and LaCie CD-RW attached to my G4 and it works beautifully.
>Now what will happen if I try that under OSX I wonder?
>
>USB, on the other hand, is always giving me problems. It is very
>fussy, hubs (powered or not) cause snags with some peripherals, my
>Epson 750 seems to draw too much power and the connection gets shut
>down, my miniVigor ISDN TA is not always on at start. For me SCSI is
>much more predictable.
>
>OT polemic over; may I email you direct about OSX issues? :>).
>
>Chris
>
>At 04:33 -0600 7/3/02, Steve Dropkin wrote:
>snip...
>>
>>As for what was wrong with SCSI, where shall I start? :-) Can't
>>hot-swap anything. _You_ are the arbitrator in deciding what ID goes
>>where (and don't forget that some were reserved and their order was
>>significant). Nothing else used SCSI, really, so peripherals were
>>expensive (though that's being turned on its head now that SCSI is
>>falling out of favor). SCSI needs termination at each end of the
>>chain, but the method of termination is not always consistent....
>>
>>When I got my G4, I bought a SCSI card to keep my scanner, second
>>hard drive, and CD-burner alive -- didn't want to spend several
>>hundred more (US) dollars updating them. Only the CD-burner is still
>>here; everything else has been replaced with non-SCSI equivalents
>>because chaining devices was just too much of a pain in the neck.
>>Who'da thunk it?
>
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