[dklaproth]

I'm going to an iBook and a Powerbook G3 from a 604e PPC and a beige G3 MT. My scanner(Epson GT-9500), CD-RW(Yamaha 4260) and Jaz all use the SCSI port the back of my Macs.
Does anybody know what adapters I need, to use my scanner, Jaz and CD-RW? I spent a bunch of money on these things and can't afford to buy new ones.

Thanks in advance :-))

For the iBook, you'll need a USB to SCSI adapter like this one:
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProdu...rsAndCables%2F

There are others available, but be aware that some of them only allow you to connect one
SCSI device at a time. The Belkin allows the usual 7. USB to SCSI works, but it might not allow full speed for your Jaz and CD-RW.

For the Powerbook, I definitely recommend the Adaptec 1480 PC Card. Works flawlessly, allows 7 devices and essentially makes them hot pluggable (something SCSI was always lacking) and is Wide SCSI, so everything you have should go at top speed.

The Belkin one works great for me. I have a Sony Spressa CD burner and Agfa scanner both going thru it to an iMac 350. Although sometimes i have to turn the burner on as well just to use the scanner. The scanner is last in the chain. I don't mind, though. Just happy that those expensive scsi peripherals still work!

oops. May have spoken too soon. Jinxed myself, i guess. The Belkin adapter still works fine on the iMac but when I use it on my new G4, my Cd burner will burn data fine, but when i try to burn an audio CD it says the connection is unstable.

using toast deluxe, tried increasing ram buffer size, 1x speed, 2x speed, etc. No go for audio.

(anyone?)

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[dilleet]

USB to firewire creates a bad 'pipeline' situation to the huge discrepancy in transfer speed between the 2 technologies. I just bought 2 Fire wire to SCSI converters from Orange Micro and am having no problems burning and mounting CDs from my Yamaha 8x4x24 ext CD RW drives. You can only attach one device at a time , but because you have a Firewire connection all you need to do is change your SCSI device and hot plug it, no restart needed. Forget about USB for anything but lightweight peripherals

I bought an Entrega USB-SCSI converter to connect my Zip drive to my new iMac. It works great, though I've noticed one big quirk. If I boot up with the Zip drive on and a Zip disk inserted, the disk will mount but I cannot copy anything to or from the disk. However, if I eject the disk, reboot the iMac, and then insert the disk, it works fine. My guess is that the Zip drivers and the converter drivers get conflicted somehow. As long as I remember to do things in that order, though, it works fine.