Hi! You should be able to use the scanner with Vuescan, which does not use a driver, but makes low-level SCSI calls to the scanner. The printer seems to be another thing entirely. Do you really need either of these things? Scanners are very cheap these days, and you can get a LOT more DR than the Astra 1200 for under 100 bucks on ebay. And they give away printers... -----Original Message----- From: g4-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com [mailto:g4-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of Ernest Vincent Pons-Worley Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 12:32 PM To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com Cc: Ernest Vincent Pons-Worley Subject: [G4] SCSI Help, please I have a dual 450 MHz processor Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) with 960 MB RAM and two internal HDDs: a 100 GB running Tiger 10.4.8 and an 80 GB running OS 9.2.2 (dual boot). I'm trying to retire a 1998-vintage old world beige G3. However, I don't want to lose my investment in SCSI peripherals, which work just fine: a UMAX Astra 1200S scanner and an Alps MD-1300 printer. I bought an Adaptec SCSI card, which works fine in the G4 with either OS. Unfortunately the system sees the scanner but not the printer and I can only use the scanner when I boot into OS 9--it won't run under classic and there is no OS X driver that I could find for this scanner. I did find a driver for the Alps printer (ppmtoppd), but I can't figure out how to compile, link and install it. I was able to use this scanner in the past on the G3 running Ubuntu Linux; therefore, I know that SANE (or was it XSANE?) and gimp work with it. Unfortunately I can't get Fink Commander to install either the SANE front or backend or gimp on the G4. The install aborts complaining about wrong dependencies (or something like that). The instructions for installing the printer from Linuxprinting.org using foomatic are even worse--daunting, in fact. Before diving into what looks like a computer science masters thesis, I would appreciate any clues anyone could give me that would help me get the scanner and/ or printer working. Thanks! Ernest _______________________________________________ G4 mailing list G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.23/591 - Release Date: 12/17/2006 3:17 PM