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

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

Henning,

I am using the Adaptec USB to SCSI converter. It says in the literature that
it supports SCSI scanners. It is working well with my Minolta scanner. But
whether it works with your LS-20, I don't know. And I don't think Adaptec
has tested the scanner and so I don't think they can tell you whether it
works or not.

I will try it on my ZIP disk tonight and let you know whether it works. When
you say flaky, what exactly do you mean? Does it fail while copying/reading?
Or does it finish copying/reading but is writing/reading wrong data?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> Henning J.
> Wulff
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 6:57 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Beginner B&W Question - Indoor Available Light
>
>
> 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.
>
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