Post #193549 by JonPez on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 8:13 AM

If you have a "dead" scanner, give VueScan a try (http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html)... Lots of supported drivers for all kinds of scanners. Pretty much universal, and it gets updated all the time. Unless, of course, you have a SCSI scanner, then you are pretty much S.O.L. on OSX. I don't think there are any supported SCSI cards that work well under Panther or Tiger.
When I first went to OSX, I just put in a second "slave" HD, formatted it with the OS9 drivers and installed OSX on it. Bingo. Dual boot Mac. In the beginning, I worked in OSX until I couldn't do something the way I was used to, then restarted back into 9. My old machine was there, unchanged. After a while, I didn't ever need to reboot into 9 again. Most older G3's and G4's (up to QuickSilver, I believe) can be dual boot. Not much of an investment to get started.
I have my old Blue & White G3 as a legacy station, with my SCSI scanner, ZIP, Jaz and old CD/DVD burner. Comes in very handy. I can scan stuff on that machine without taking up the processes on my laptop. Networks perfect.