SCSI to Firewire Solution?

Man, my gear must be a lot older than I realized. I have an old HP laserprinter that still works perfectly that I'd like to hook up to my new Mac Pro. Unfortunately, there's not much SCSI support going on these days. I did find a Firewire to Ultra SCSI gizmo (http://tinyurl.com/lxvpe) , but i'm not sure that'd work with my regular SCSI printer, would it?
Any other suggestions for a Firewire to SCSI solution?
-Ray

That's the one. Their product page is here…
http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/firerex1.html
Also, if you look further down you'll see…
"For the SCSI-1 device with Centronics 50F connector, High-Density 50F to Centronics 50M adapter is available at RATOC Web Mall"
… which leads me to believe that it will in fact work.

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Scsi to Firewire adapter

I want to use my old microteck scanner with my iMac but since my scanner uses a scsi, I would need an adpapter.
Couple of questions:
1. Should I get a scsi to Firewire or scsi to USB? Which is faster (I'm guessing firewire but not sure)
2. Where can I get these adapter for a great deal?
Thanks.

I can't directly answer your question, but I would suggest the FireWire adapter. I have one and it worked great with my Epson scanner and my Zip Drive. (Remember those?)
I will check tonight and let you know which unit I have.
Also, if your driver doesn't work or is not available, VueScan should work great to drive your scanner.
Message was edited by: Keith Barkley

FireWire Solution, yes it's true!

Hey there!
When surfing the net I found a beautiful gadget which enables you to hook FireWire devices to your USB port. This could be the solution for everyone who's annoyed about the lack of FireWire.
You can connect Video cameras, external hard disk drives, scanners or even other computers.
And it supports the full FireWire400 speed!
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/bastelecke/Rund%20um%20den%20PC/u2f/index.h tml.en
The con is that the English site claims there is no Mac OS support planned. The German page sais that you have to adapt the Mac OS software to the USB protocol.
Enjoy it!
Kind Regards!

gpotts,
Yes, I know the old iPod 2G is obsolete, but it has a 20 gig drive on it and works perfectly. My son also has a newer iPod Nano with a small amount of storage space. He'll have to use that while he's away at college for any new music purchases. He has an old eMac at home with Firewire, so he can update his music collection onto the old Firewire iPod when he gets breaks from college. We'll survive.
I would love to give my son the gift of a new iPod, but I'm still paying for the Aluminum MacBook that I bought him for Christmas using my credit card. Sigh... Times are hard, but we'll survive.
It's my own fault for not checking out the tech specs more thoroughly. Let the buyer beware... I've been so busy with working full time and going to college myself, that I assumed a new Mac would have a Firewire port. I didn't check the specs for Firewire, only for the processor speed, hard drive size, RAM, etc.
The thing is, though, that with a PC laptop, you could buy a Firewire card and install it yourself. If Apple isn't going to put one in there, they should make it optional. I told them that in feedback. Apple can't compete if they're not going to treat their customer base fairly.
Donna

Firewire Solution? USB To Express Card Adapter Cable + Firewire Expresscard

Has anyone tried this as a possible solution for getting firewire on their macbook 13.3 unibody? In theory it would seem that you could use this USB To Express Card Adapter Cable and plug in a firewire expesscard. Anyone tried it?
http://usb.brando.com.hk/mini-usb-to-express-card-adapter-cable_p00783c042d015.h tml

Also... as they went through the trouble to specifically indicate the compatible cards, I would imagine there are known incompatibilities with other card types. None of the cards they list would have difficulty over USB. Each of these cards already have similar counterparts that are available to connect directly to USB (vs. using an express card). This would seem most useful for people that may already have express cards that they use in other notebooks so they could use them in a machine without an express card slot... otherwise I would imagine people would just get the USB versions of these devices. USB hubs can obviously connect directly to a USB port, memory card readers are also available for connecting directly to a USB port. RS232 is pretty dated and USB can easily handle RS 232 throughput. I'm not exactly sure what a printer card is... but printers generally connect via USB (or parallel in older machines)... again... very easy for USB to handle. In order for it to work with firewire, they would have to have a hardware translator built into it. I'm sure they would list firewire if it was an option.

Is there a firewire solution yet?

I have a Panasonic Mini-DV Camcorder with only firewire as an option for outputing video. I have a MacBook 13-inch unibody.
Does anyone know if there has been a solution made or a cord or adapter that I can input video from my MacBook via USB?
Thanks for any help...

Sorry, it can't be done, USB is not fast enough.
There are no USB to Firewire adapters. (Desperate aluminum Macbook owners are looking, but it can't be done.)
Firewire MUST be in the computer.
If you need Firewire look at the new (early 2009) white Macbook it has Firewire. (and the new NVIDIA graphics.)
http://www.apple.com/macbook/white/

I need a usb-firewire solution. running out of ports!

Hi,
THe two usb ports supplied on my MBP are not enough and i already have a powered usb hub connected to each port, further connecting several devices and hdds!
now simple things like making a TM backup are running slow because of like 2 to 3 hdds connected to hubs on each port.
my firewire port has been lying latent and i was wondering if there was some sort of a hub that would connect to my mac's firewire and inturn allow me to connect usb 2 or 3 devices on its interface?
i'm sure that if a usb 2 port can take extensions of 7 and 10 devices via hubs, a firewire port running at 800 mpbs could take much more traffic.
if there is an ethernet based solution, then that would be even better! cause there i would have a 1gbps bandwidth to spare.
please link me to the right product please. google confuses me and i can make out from the specs as to how the hubs it lists, work.
thanks for stopping by.
Neerav
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Hi JMF, I had the same issue as you, but I found a USB drive that does fit next to a standard sized USB cable. It is a Verbatim USB Mini Swivel and comes in sizes from 1GB to 8GB. You can get these through the Online Apple store. Hope this helps.

FireWire solution #3...should at least work, technically.

Folks have been providing cable-based solutions on this forum, but those do not translate data back and forth. Here's one potential solution for dealing with the firewire conversion.
1. Get an ExpressCard USB adaptor, such as the one in the link below (Yes, works on the Mac):
http://www.siig.com/ViewProduct.aspx?pn=JU-000012-S1
2. Get an ExpressCard FireWire port and plug it into the adaptor:
http://www.usbgear.com/computercabledetails.cfm?sku=SS-800EXP&cats=496&catid=496
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fwusbexpresscard34.html
That should provide the proper conversion for getting FireWire devices recognized, though I've not seen folks test them out. There are some limits to the USB to ExpressCard adaptors, which wont work with some PCIe-based expresscards...dunno if that would play a role with the firewire expresscards though.
Good luck, and if anyone has had success with this pleas post it!

Looking around I found a website that said this:
"ExpressCards using the PCI Express (PCIe) portion of the ExpressCard standard include very high performance devices like FireWire 800 and eSATA host adapters."
It doesn't say firewire 400, but my guess would be that there is a good chance that even a 400 express card may not be compatible with this cool looking adapter found.
someone would have to find the specifics on the 400 express cards in question before trying it out. I wouldn't hold my breath. Hate to be pessimistic. This was the most promising looking workaround yet.
edit: Yup, reading some descriptions of the firewire 400 cards on some sites it says "Utilizing the performance of PCI Express" so this "workaround" will not give firewire to the MacBook.
Firewire just is not compatible on the USB bus no matter how much we want to believe it, at least not with any current tech out there I've been finding.
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FireWire Solutions are available -- Express Card add-ons

For everyone concerned about the lack of FireWire, the MacBook's ExpressCard slot will support FireWire upgrade cards that will allow for device connectivity. Granted they probably will not support Target Disk Mode, but at least regular functionality will be there.
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fwusbexpresscard34.html
I expect more companies will put out FireWire express card solutions, but there are some now for users that need it.

Nevermind....there is no ExpressCard slot on the MacBook...got it mixed up with the Pro...grr...

Firewire solution question

There are combo USB/Firewire enclosures for harddrives.
Could you connect that with USB to the MacBooks and attach a camcorder to the FW and see it through the USB?

Your solution is to spend $700 more for the MacBook Pro, something that Steve Jobs said you no longer have to do with the MacBook. However that is exactly what Apple wants you to do, which is why they crippled the new MacBook. They need more Pro sales since the earlier MacBook outsold the Pro.
All MiniDV cameras, which most people have, use FireWire. There is no way around it. PC users bought a FireWire PCI card if their PC did not already have FireWire. Also, the loss of Target Disk Mode is a huge loss.
Sorry Apple, no FireWire, no sale! People are not going to drop another $500 to $1000 for a new camcorder because you were too cheap to include FireWire on the MacBook! You might as well delete iMovie from the iLife package since it is no longer useful on a MacBook.

SCSI/IDE/Firewire hard drive?

Hi all,
I've got a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver 2002, which has, I think, an ATA/66 bus, Firewire 400 and 64bit PCI slots. How do I find out for sure that the controller can only support up to ATA/66?
I've got a Cheetah U320 SCSI hard drive lying around spare. The boot hard drive I have in the mac right now is an ATA/100 IDE drive connected to the on-board IDE bus. I have a firewire hard drive enclosure.
So, my question is, to speed up the computer in general, should I buy an U320 SCSI controller, which will be expensive, use the SCSI hard drive as boot drive; or put the ATA/100 IDE drive in the firewire enclosure and use that as boot drive; or just leave the current boot drive as it is now?
Thanks very much for your help in advance!
Regards - Piers

In general, Adaptec cards supported in Macs were different from the PC versions, and had "PowerDomain" in their names.
Adaptec has no further interest in the Macintosh market, and dropped most support for Mac SCSI cards in 2002:
"Adaptec is no longer developing SCSI drivers for the Mac OS. Technical support is available for those products still in their complimentary support period; however, there will be no new SCSI drivers, firmware, or patches available."
Adaptec’s Mac OS compliance page

Prosumer video storage: sub $1000 firewire solutions

This question has been asked before [1], but that thread went in a different direction.
I want to edit and manage about 0.7 to 1.0 TB of family video on hard drives, perhaps using FCPX. My home backup and data management won't scale to this level.
I'd like to hear what other prosumers do for $1000 or less (I assume professional setups are different.)
I'm assuming something like this:
3 1TB drives
RAID 0 setup with two drives (OS X RAID?)
Periodically take one drive offsite, the mirror rebuilds. (So only real backup is offsite backup, every year retire one drive and add another)
Mac formatted drives (so presumably not SAN/Drobo, though low-end DROBO is in my price range)
I assume over time, as drive capacity grows, I'll integrate my video storage with my other data use/backup. For a few years though they'll be different. For example: Video work would kill my Time Capsule Wifi backup.
Any suggestions? What vendors do you like?
[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3664396?start=0&tstart=0

Sorry, got my RAIDs switched! I do want redundancy.
I use CCC as a Time Capsule complement for routine backup, so I could go that route rather than RAID.
I woud like a solution where I didn't have to deal with multiple power cords and multiple data connectors.
What do you think of the LaCie d2 or 2big solutions? They have a new thunderbolt series out with MacOS RAID (so presumably FCPX compatible)
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10573
The LaCie 2Big 4TB solution is $650. With a 3rd drive to swap offsite I'd be in budget.
The Pegasus R4 Thunderbolt solution is a bit higher end, but is sold through the Apple store:
http://www.promise.com/storage/raid_series.aspx?m=192&region=en-global&rsn1=40&r sn3=47
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H5184VC/A/Thunderbolt
At $1150 it's over my budget, but it's something to think about ...

How to Run a SCSI Scanner with Firewire In OS X?

Does anyone know how to run a SCSI scanner with Firewire in Mavericks?
I have unsuccessfully tried the RATOC FR1SX SCSI-to-Firewire converter. The Ratoc is recognized as a Firewire device in the System Profiler (see pic below). However, the VueScan scanning software does not recognize the scanner. I know the scanner works because I have been using it in an old HP PC. As such I installled Windows 7 64 bit via Boot Camp to see if I could use the scanner, but had no luck.
I have an iMac 21.5-inch, Mid 2010.
ANY HELP?

The Mac scanner driver is not seeing it as a native SCSI device assuming VueScan supports the model of scanner you have. (You did not list the scanner model.)
Other than getting a modern non-SCSI scanner, a possible option would be to get a Thunderbolt PCI expansion chassis and a 'real' SCSI interface card. There is no guarantee this will work though as SCSI has been discontinued in the Mac world for years and years. If you then want to look at a SCSI card for use with the expansion chassis then look at the following.
Hmm, just looked the AttoTech SCSI cards have been discontinued as well, as I said SCSI is ancient history in the Mac world.

SCSI to USB2 or Firewire converter?

I got my wife a mini and would like to connect her large format Epson scanner to it, but it has a SCSI connector. I see a lot of converters out on the market but am not sure which I should get. They run from very cheap to very expensive and some say they are not OSX compatible. Has anyone used one that works? Preferrably something not too pricey. Firewire or USB2, though Firewire is probably the better one to use.
She's running the lastes Tiger by the way.
Thanks!

Yeah,
The large format scanners are expensive, so I don't blame you for wanting to make it work, and it sounds like the drivers may not present a problem.
The SCSI to PCMCIA adapters are common, so that you could make it work on a PowerBook with a PC Card slot, and SCSI to PCI cards abound, so you could make it work on a Desktop Mac.
But wait, there's more!
Here's a handy little Ratoc adapter for SCSI to Firewire. It states that it is OSX and Tiger compatable. At about $89 retail, it's a little pricey, though.
http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/firerex1.html
Once upon a time I had an Agfa SnapScan SCSI scanner that was great. So, please let us all hear if you try the Ratoc adapter and how things turn out.
Peace to you,
C. Livingstone

SCSI/Firewire combination RAC on RH AS 2.1

Hi,
Has anyone configure a clustered system on RH AS 2.1 using both SCSI and firewire as the shared access disks?
Reasoning: have one instance running on the scsi units, but lack of space for a second much larger (140GB) instance. Would like to add firewire for this.
Any help/assistence/views is appreciated.
Kind regards,
Ian Smith

Hello,
I just want to say Thanks!!
For your Installation 9i R2 on RH Tutorial.
And, I have to say they works fine to Mandrake too. (some times - better tham).
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I need a firewire or USB adaptor to control my SCSI Lacie Silverscanner III

Hi
Need some help bringing my old scanner back to life with my G5. Can anyone steer me to USB or Firewire adaptors that my be avalalble to perform that function? I know scanners are cheap, but I would like to use my old Lacie scanner if at all possible.
My system
Machine Name:Power Mac G5
Machine Model:PowerMac11,2
CPU Type:PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed:2.3 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU):1 MB
Memory:2.5 GB
Bus Speed:1.15 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1
Thanks
Dan Page
Hawaii.

Hi-
Welcome to Discussions!
The only adapters I know of are the Ratoc SCSI to Firewire adapter and the Ratoc SCSI to USB adapter
I would contact the maker regarding compatibility with the Lacie scanner, as it is not on the compatibility list.

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