Post #193577 by JonPez on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 10:36 AM

There are going to be instances where a specific SCSI card may be supported by the built-in drivers in the OS and the proper software may actually read them. That is great that you have that combo. Scanners work better with this than hard drives and some other peripherals.
Most newer machines will have some issues with the operation of SCSI devices using older cards. I'm still waiting on Apple to add complete support for SCSI and the card manufacturers to follow suit, but some third-parties are making this functionality easier. We are using a few older machines to run Retrospect backups in OS9 to a SCSI tape drive. Won't work in OSX and we can't drop the coin for a FireWire tape drive.
The good news is most devices are now USB or FireWire and many are much cheaper than they were in the olden days (except Tape Drives, of course). I just happen to be burdened with a big stack of SCSI devices I can't bear to throw out and replace. Not that I'm going to use those 44mb SyQuests very much anyway, but in case I need 'em...