[MacDV] OSX and SCSI

[Michael Winter]

On May 6, 2004, at 8:43 AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> It comes up no information found in the system profiler. Has anybody 
> had
> any experience with this problem?

Do you happen to have an external SCSI hard drive around?

The reason I ask is that I've always found troubleshooting SCSI 
problems with scanners to be a lot more difficult than with hard 
drives. The drivers for scanners always seemed to be so finicky I could 
never tell if it was a SCSI problem or scanner/scanner driver problem. 
Connecting a SCSI hard drive was always a more reliable method for me 
to determine if the SCSI card was working. If a hard drive worked, I 
knew it was time to work on drivers and possibly SCSI termination or 
cable issues (the hard drives also seemed to be more forgiving in this 
regard too).

Which brings up another question. Are you sure you have everything 
properly terminated? It may be possible that OS X is less tolerant of 
noise in the system.

-Mike