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PM 7500, 10.2.8, internal SCSI, and Scanners
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I am in the process of playing with OS X (10.2.8) to see if it's a worthwhile upgrade.
I have a PM 7500 with a XLR8 G4 400, SIIG ATA Ultra 133 with a 40GB HD, 512mb ram and all sorts of video cards.
Anyways, I got 10.2.8 installed correctly (3 partitions, etc, with Expostfacto 2.2.5). I got my Laserjet 2100TN to run. I am trying to get my Nikon Ls-1000 and Microtek ScanMaker 4 to run. They are connected to the built-in external SCSI bus via the 25pin connector (CDR, Nikon, Microtek). The computer boots up and in both 9.1 and 10.2.8, the System Profiler shows and correctly identifies the CDR and the scanners.
I am trying to run VueScan (newest version as of 11/12/03, demo) and it recognizes both scanners. But, when I press the preview button (default settings in VueScan), the scanner positions the film carrier and gets ready to scan, but the rainbow cursor just spins (hasn't stopped in the 1/2 hour I was willing to wait for it before I forced a re-boot). I did notice that my CDR "Busy" light occasionally lights up while the scanner is supposed to scan. I tried the program with the Microtek scanner and get no preview as well.
Is there an issue with the on-board external SCSI on 10.2.8? I tried booting up with a single scanner attached (device terminated or not), and I never get past the grey apple screen (never completely starts up).
Any ideas? Looks like I'll have to stick with 9.1.
Thanks in advance.
tk
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The fact is, no publicly released version of OS X was designed to run on that hardware, and so compatibility problems with it (SCSI, in your case) are likely, since Apple's not testing it on unsupported machines.
(The beige G3 and Wallstreet and Lombard PowerBooks are the only officially-supported-on-OS-X Macs with onboard SCSI.)
tooki
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For those who might want to know...
It's now running. As I suspected, the internal SCSI was the culprit. I removed the USB PCI card and plugged in an adaptec card and every SCSI device works fine. But now, I need more PCI slots. Good thing I just bought a PM 9500 for $20. I migrated everything over (drives, memory, etc) and all is well. Now if only I get it to print to my Epson Photo Stylus 700 (serial or parallel). I guess I'll be checking out GimpPrint soon.
tk
Originally posted by tooki:
The fact is, no publicly released version of OS X was designed to run on that hardware, and so compatibility problems with it (SCSI, in your case) are likely, since Apple's not testing it on unsupported machines.
(The beige G3 and Wallstreet and Lombard PowerBooks are the only officially-supported-on-OS-X Macs with onboard SCSI.)
tooki
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