Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 4:56 PM +0800 9/20/00, Ken Lai wrote: >Has anyone tried hooking up the Nikon or Polaroid film scanner to a >USB-to-SCSI or Firewire-to-SCSI converter on a Mac. I have the Mac Cube and >currently using the USB-to-SCSI converter to a Minolta Scan Dual but want to >upgrade to either a Nikon LS2000 or Polaroid 4000. However on the Mac Cube, >you don't have the SCSI port, PCMCIA slot or PCI slot so the only choices >are USB or firewire. > Which USB-SCSI converter are you using? I'm quite interested as my son recently got an iMacDV and have tried the Firewire-to-SCSI converter from OrangeMicro. I hardly works. Hard drives seem to be OK, but it's very flaky with a SCSI Zip drive, and doesn't work with his LS-20 scanner. We've been in touch with OrangeMicro on a regular basis, but so far no go. OrangeMicro seems to think they might get it working some time in the future. Microtech's device seems to look identical, so is probably the same piece of hardware. They say flat out 'no!' when asked whether their device works with scanners. I don't know of any other devices. We've contacted all the vendors of USB-SCSI devices, and the response as to whether or not it would work with a film scanner has been either 'probably not' or 'why don't you buy one of our devices, try it out and let us know; you can always bring it back for a refund'. So right now he's doing his scanning on an older Mac and transferring the results. Seems we're on the cutting (bleeding heavily) edge here. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com