Nikon Coolscan III USB to SCSI

[Paul Drew]

I would like to use my Nikon Coolscan III which has a SCSI interface
with my Apple Powerbook Laptop which has USB. Is anyone aware of a
suitable USB to SCSI converter that can be used with scanners.

 

[tomm42]

I would like to use my Nikon Coolscan III which has a SCSI interface
with my Apple Powerbook Laptop which has USB. Is anyone aware of a
suitable USB to SCSI converter that can be used with scanners.

You maybe out of luck unless you are running system 9 on your Mac. Mac
OSX doesn't recognize SCSI at all, at least that is what my local Mac
dealer told me. All SCSI devices were orphaned with OSX. Scanners are
notoriously sensitive to SCSI connections I wouldn't think a SCSI to
USB would work. Don't know if PowerBooks have a Cardbus slot, if they
do Adaptec makes a card 1480 which work with an Nikon LS2000 scanner
on my IBM. Still doesn't help with the OSX problem.

Tom

 

[Terry]

You maybe out of luck unless you are running system 9 on your Mac. Mac
OSX doesn't recognize SCSI at all, at least that is what my local Mac
dealer told me. All SCSI devices were orphaned with OSX. Scanners are
notoriously sensitive to SCSI connections I wouldn't think a SCSI to
USB would work. Don't know if PowerBooks have a Cardbus slot, if they
do Adaptec makes a card 1480 which work with an Nikon LS2000 scanner
on my IBM. Still doesn't help with the OSX problem.

Tom

Try this:
http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/u2scx.html

The info indicates It works with OSX 10.4 and scanners.

 

[tomm42]

Try this:http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/u2scx.html

The info indicates It works with OSX 10.4 and scanners.

Would be interesting to see if it works, I had 10.2 on my Mac when I
was told I had to orphan all my SCSI devices. Switching to OS9 was
such a pain, computer would crash, lock so it could only be
resusitated with a rescue program.
The Nikon LS2000 has problems even with WindowsXP though I got mine
working with an Adaptec Cardbus adaptor.
I also noticed this device is tested only with VueScan, and doesn't
list specific scanners.


Tom

 

[Stephen Harker]

On the original question, the main advice I have seen is that Firewire
to SCSI converters work better than USB to SCSI converters (or at
least more people reported success). There used to be a Belkin
product and an Orange Micro product for this, but these apparently are
not made anymore and only available second hand. I _think_ the only
one available new is the Ratoc product mentioned by others. See for

You maybe out of luck unless you are running system 9 on your Mac. Mac
OSX doesn't recognize SCSI at all, at least that is what my local Mac
dealer told me. All SCSI devices were orphaned with OSX.

Well, it is not quite true. I have an old 7600/200 running OSX
(10.3.8 through XPostFacto) with a 36GB SCSI drive on a Miles Initio2
SCSI card and my old film scanner on the built-in external SCSI port.
I have not had much problems with running the scanner and OSX does
recognise the Initio2 card. I suspect the XPostFacto drivers are the
reason the internal SCSI works with the film scanner. I use VueScan.

 

[Paul Drew]

Try this:
http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/u2scx.html

The info indicates It works with OSX 10.4 and scanners.

Thanks Terry, that looks exactly what I'm looking for. It even mentions
my film scanner in the compatability list.

Paul

 

[David Blanchard]

Thanks Terry, that looks exactly what I'm looking for. It even mentions
my film scanner in the compatability list.

Let us know how it works. I've been looking at the Ratoc SCSI to
Firewire and SCSI to USB but haven't purchased either. I would be
interested in learning how well it works.

-db-