![]() You are probably better off keeping your old machine running (maybe offloading as much as possible from it) and replacing the scanner when that becomes no longer viable. ![]() Not all are indicated as always successful, but some are. There is a page somewhere specifying the values you have to set in one such adapter for use with various scanners. So the results have been mixed and nowadays nobody builds such adapters, that I know of. SCSI was not so much the protocol the device used to talk to your computer, but the protocol the device used to talk to its own card installed on the computer. The fact is that each vendor used to supply a SCSI card along with their SCSI device and the two were meant to be used together. But now there's another problem, which is that SCSI implementations vary wildly, and it's difficult to build a controller that can adjust to any possible peripheral, and even if it is, you don't have access to the parameters your specific peripheral needs. That has even been done, in the form of the Ratoc devices one finds on eBay. That said, it is possible to create a USB device posing as a cable or adapter which is in reality a SCSI (or any other interface) controller. ![]() The protocols are different, and, more importantly, follow different philosophies. When I add the Microtech to that, it doesn't spin up.Īnyone have experience with these? from the two threads above, it sounds like you guys have used these before.The problem with this is that it's not just a matter of plumbing. With just power applied to the drive / SCA to IDC50 board, the drive spins up. I also tried it with an older 2014 or so MBP with USB-3 ports. I tried it plugged into a USB hub and then directly to my Macbook USB-C port with a USB-C to USB3 adapter for a modern Macbook Pro Touchbar. HD50 Microtech model above plugged into a USB port (I hadn't located my DB25 version when I tried this). IDC50 to DB25 converter sold by Inertial ComputingĦ. ![]() SCA to IDC50 board with power input, being driven by a power supply to the molex connectorģ. I'm not sure why it would be an issue, but is it possible I have to many converters?Ģ. Within device manager neither the adapter or the disc drive was listed, just the communication protocol (USB SCSI storeage device) The scsi disc itself was listed in my devices and as a HD icon in the 'This PC' menu. I've got a couple of the Microtech SCSI to USB adapters.įrom this thread and this thread on those devices (very and somewhat old threads, so I won't try and resurrect them) they should work on OS X with the caveats mentioned in one of the threads.īut mine does nothing. When the usb cable was connected, the adapter cable itself was not listed, only the drive it was connected to. ![]()
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