Can't use scsi scanner?

I have a Sharp JX-320 scanner. I've been using it on an older Mac, but I want to get rid of some clutter and use it on my Mac G4 OS X Tiger.
It shows up through System Profiler (see profile below). But when I try to scan, either through Photoshop's scanning plugin or through VueScan, the scanning utilities are unable to find the scanner. This happens whether I work in OS X (using Photoshop 7 or VueScan), or in Classic (Photoshop 6)
The scanner is plugged in to the scsi card, is the only thing on the chain, and is terminated. I can't really figure out what the scsi device number is, or how to change it, if that might be the problem.
What's going on? Is there any way to get the scanner to show up?
SCSI Parallel Domain 65536:
Initiator Identifier: 7
SHARP JX320 SCSI:
Manufacturer: SHARP
Model: JX320 SCSI
Revision: 071I
SCSI Target Identifier: 4
SCSI Logical Unit Identifier: 0

Well, I only tried downloading the VueScan utility since the Photoshop plugins aren't working. I couldn't find my scanner in their unsupported list, but I didn't really expect it to work. (I was testing for an OS X native scanning utility, but it's not worth paying the $50 to license the utility when I can get a USB scanner for about the same cost.)
Unfortunately, this computer won't boot in OS 9: I can only run OS 9.2.2 in Classic.
In PS 7 my plug-in doesn't work. It doesn't even show up. Which is about what I'd expect. But I can't find an OS X plug-in for PS 7.
In Classic, I've tried it both in PS 4 and PS 6. The utility opens as it always has on my OS 8.6 and OS 9.2.2 Macs. But when I try to scan, I get an error (GPIB Device "DEV7"not found).
Any idea why the scanner would show up in System Profiler, but not be found by the scanning utility?
Any idea if there's something that can be done to "fix" that?
Any idea where I could get an OS X plug-in for Photoshop 7 that might work with this scanner?
Thanks for any advice or help.

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