[G4] SCSI Help, please

[Jay Ruuska]

I'm with Earnest on this one. Just because new stuff is cheaper does not
mean you should throw perfectly good equipment in the landfill. In most
cases, obsolescence is just a lack of imagination.

Also, the Alps MD-1300 is not an ordinary printer. It prints high-gloss
metallic ink, opaque white, and other things no regular inkjet or laser
printer can possibly do. So it's worth saving. I happen to have one, and I'd
like to get it running under OS X for convenience sake.

Please let us know how you fare Earnest.

- Jay Ruuska

> From: Ernest Vincent Pons-Worley <eponsworley at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."
> <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:32:02 -0800
> To: "g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com" <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Cc: Ernest Vincent Pons-Worley <eponsworley at mac.com>
> 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
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