RE: [Leica] Beginner B&W Question - Indoor Available Light

["Ken Lai" <ken@compose.com.hk>]

Pascal,

Thanks for your help.

I will probably wait for the new Kodak scanner, since it says it supports
USB. And then I will try the firewire converter with the scanner to see how
much faster it runs.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Pascal
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 12:43 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Beginner B&W Question - Indoor Available Light
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Good question. The lack of SCSI interface possibility is the
> major reason
> why I would never contemplate buying the Mac Cube. Although
> it looks rather
> cute, real work where you need SCSI is best done on a
> PowerMac G4 with a
> SCSI PCI card or on a PowerBook G3 with SCSI PC Card.
>
> I would advise against using a USB-to-SCSI converter. I have
> had my fair
> share of misery with converters (admittedly, with a
> ADB-to-USB converter)
> and they tend to have all kinds of compatibility issues.
> Plus, don't forget
> that you will be severely degrading the performance of your
> scanner. The
> higher end slide scanners use Ultra SCSI which operates at 20 Mbps
> throughput, USB has a theoretical maximum of only 12 Mbps
> plus you'll have
> to share that with other appliances on the USB chain like
> keyboard and mouse
> which will degrade the effective throughput even furter.
>
> The Firewire-to-SCSI way should theoretically be a better one
> (as FireWire
> has 400 Mbps throughput), but unfortunately I have no
> experience with that
> and cannot advise you on it. Be warned that there may be compatibility
> issues. You'd be well advised to try out the configuration
> you have before
> committing to any such converter !
> Orange has such a FireWire to SCSI converter, however, it
> will only work
> with one single SCSI device at a time.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Pascal
> NO ARCHIVE
>