[MacDV] Re: OSX and SCSI

[Richard Gilmore]

Nikon tells me it's their fault. They are not supporting any SCSI devices under
OSX. Perhaps there is some undocumented workaround but for now we'll have to
use OS9. For a big profitable company like Nikon I'm disappointed in their lack
of Mac support. How hard would it have been to write a proper SCSI driver
instead of making us either boot into OS9 or buy a Firewire scanner. When the
time comes to buy another scanner I'll be sure not to choose Nikon.

Richard


>
> I've had the same problem. If you are using Panther, the file
> IOSCSIParallelFamily.kext is the problem (In my case). My Agfa Duoscan SCSI
> scanner worked up until 10.2.8. When I upgraded to Panther, it stopped
> working. I replaced the Panther IOSCSIParallelFamily.kext file with the one
> from 10.2.8 and my computer could see and use my scanner again. I booted
> into OS 9 when I changed out the files. I've heard (but don't know if it's
> true) that changing out the files logged in as root or while booted from
> another OS X disk may not work. Don't know why.
>
> Samuel
>