Post #193561 by tikibars on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 9:40 AM

On 2005-10-19 08:13, JonPez wrote:
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.

VueScan does work pretty good, but the OSX/SCSI/SOL bit is
not true!

I have a SCSI card in my trusty old G3 (running OS 10.3), with a Microtek Scanmaker X6el hooked up to it, and VueScan makes it work just fine.
Remember though - with old, old, old-skool SCSI stuff, you have to reboot after turning the SCSI devices on, or the OS won't see them.

VueScan is OK, but there's an app I like better called SilverFast. I might switch to that.

On 2005-10-19 08:13, JonPez wrote:
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.

I did the exact same thing, and had the same results. I still have the OS9 drive, but I almost never boot from it, or even launch OS9 from within OSX at all.