[filmscanners] RE: SCSI support on a Mac Pro

["Laurie@advancenet.net" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

Tony,

You may be correct about film scanners using a SCSI-2 interface; but I
believe that my Minolta Dimage Scan Multi (the original version) was SCSI-1.
At any rate, I noted that the specs say that the converter/adapter supported
only a SCSI-2 interface just in case there were film scanners that used a
different interface or people who might be thinking about connecting some
other SCSI device to the adapter or to the daisy chain.

There were and are still firewire -> SCSI converter/adapters on the market;
and evidently were - if not still are - USB2 -> SCSI converter/adapters as
well as USB 1.1 -> SCSI converter/adapters on the market.  USB2 is just as
robust if not more so than Firewire; it was USB 1.1 which was not as robust
as Firewire.  But now, Firewire, under its various names, comes in a number
of different flavors and speed capacities.  The original spec was a 400; a
new spec was introduced that was 800 or double the capacity. Firewire is
used by many digital cameras as their connection to the computer of choice,
although there are now a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and number of pins -
4 pin and 6 pin configuration connectors in use.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Tony Sleep
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:49 AM
> To: laurie@advancenet.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: SCSI support on a Mac Pro
>
> On 11/02/2008 Laurie@advancenet.net wrote:
> > Evidently, this adapter/converter still is on the market; but it
> > works only
> > with SCSI-2 from what I have been able to determine.
>
> As far as I know, all filmscanners that appeared with SCSI interfaces
> used
> SCSI2 standard, even though they only achieved SCSI1 speeds 1-3MB/sec
> across the bus.
>
> I'm not a Mac person, but I thought there were Firewire<->SCSI
> converters
> too, and that was a more robust solution than USB<->SCSI because FW and
> SCSI are more closely related. Or have the latest Mac's dumped Firewire
> too?
>
> Leopard seems to have been Apple's Vista!
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Tony Sleep
> http://tonysleep.co.uk
>
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