MP 1,1-5,1 SCANNER with SCSI

[reto0815]

I have a Screen Cezanne fs 5500 (High End Scanner) with ColorGeniusEX for Mac OS 9 / OS X10.4 - OS X10.6 with SCSI connected to an iMac G5 Power Mac 970, A1207, 4GB Ram and HDD, running OS X10.5. Runs well but slowly.

I also have a Mac Pro A1186, 19GB Ram and SSD OS X10.5. I do not have a SCSI card for this. The only one that would work is the: ATTO Express PCI UL5S SCSI (not available or extremely expensive).

What other options are there for faster scanning?

Does a Target Disc Mode make sense?

If so, which one?

SCSI to USB2: with Ratoc U2SCX/U2SCXV (Ratoc is available)?

FireWire 400 to FireWire 800?

Ethernet to Ethernet?

Are there other solutions?

I am a Macintosh beginner! I'm happy for any advice, including what doesn't make sense.

 

[tsialex]

Does a Target Disc Mode make sense?

No, while everything is a file with Unix, a scanner is not a disk.

Target Disk Mode just make available the disks of the Mac that is running TDM to the Mac that is connected to it. You won't access the scanner.

Try to find a used SCSI card, you probably will need to run 10.4/10.5 with your Mac Pro.

 

[reto0815]

No, while everything is a file with Unix, a scanner is not a disk.

Target Disk Mode just make available the disks of the Mac that is running TDM to the Mac that is connected to it. You won't access the scanner.

Try to find a used SCSI card, you probably will need to run 10.4/10.5 with your Mac Pro.

thank you

 

[velocityg4]

Probably the cheapest will be to get a G4 or G5 (PCI+AGP models). Then get a SCSI card for it. As the used PCI SCSI 2 cards are pretty cheap.

Also how slow is slow? What resolution are you using and size of scan? Because those old scanners could be extremely slow at a high DPI.

Also what SCSI adapter are you currently using?

 

[reto0815]

Probably the cheapest will be to get a G4 or G5 (PCI+AGP models). Then get a SCSI card for it. As the used PCI SCSI 2 cards are pretty cheap.

Also how slow is slow? What resolution are you using and size of scan? Because those old scanners could be extremely slow at a high DPI.

Also what SCSI adapter are you currently using?

I use a
- G5 Power Mac 970, A1207, 4 GB Ram and HDD, running OS
X10.4. With Adaptec scsi card 39160.

- How slow is slow: 15 minutes for a scan.

- I scan slide with highest resolution 5200 -6000DPI

 

[chrfr]

I have a Screen Cezanne fs 5500 (High End Scanner) with ColorGeniusEX for Mac OS 9 / OS X10.4 - OS X10.6 with SCSI connected to an iMac G5 Power Mac 970, A1207, 4GB Ram and HDD, running OS X10.5. Runs well but slowly.

I also have a Mac Pro A1186, 19GB Ram and SSD OS X10.5. I do not have a SCSI card for this. The only one that would work is the: ATTO Express PCI UL5S SCSI (not available or extremely expensive).

What other options are there for faster scanning?

Does a Target Disc Mode make sense?

If so, which one?

SCSI to USB2: with Ratoc U2SCX/U2SCXV (Ratoc is available)?

FireWire 400 to FireWire 800?

Ethernet to Ethernet?

Are there other solutions?

I am a Macintosh beginner! I'm happy for any advice, including what doesn't make sense.

You might add a FireWire to SCSI adapter to your list. These will also be hard to find but will allow you the option of using an older Mac that doesn’t have PCIe slots: https://www.largeformatphotography....-5000-with-SCSI-FireWire-or-USB-SCSI-adapters

 

[velocityg4]

I use a
- G5 Power Mac 970, A1207, 4 GB Ram and HDD, running OS
X10.4. With Adaptec scsi card 39160.

- How slow is slow: 15 minutes for a scan.

- I scan slide with highest resolution 5200 -6000DPI

Your original said an iMac G5. I assumed that was some slow USB adapter. Not a PowerMac with a SCSI 160 card.

That card supports 160MB/s. That scanner won't come close to that bandwidth. It's most likely limited to 10-20 MB/s. It was also rated on a 400mhz G4. So, any G5 shouldn't be any sort of bottleneck either.

The specs for your scanner list 350 DPI at 104 per hour with 35mm. 5200-6000DPI would be vastly slower. Perhaps you're also using a higher bit depth than used for their rating. As they don't mention if that is B&W, CMYK, RGB or other settings. At 6000 DPI, I wouldn't expect more than one slide every 10 minutes.

All else I could think is if there is some SCSI configuration issue. Causing it to default to a lower speed. It's been too long since I've worked with SCSI to diagnose that. But I wouldn't expect too much more.

I can't find the Screen Cezanne fs 5500 specifically. I'm assuming that is actually the FT-S5500.

 

[reto0815]

Your original said an iMac G5. I assumed that was some slow USB adapter. Not a PowerMac with a SCSI 160 card.

That card supports 160MB/s. That scanner won't come close to that bandwidth. It's most likely limited to 10-20 MB/s. It was also rated on a 400mhz G4. So, any G5 shouldn't be any sort of bottleneck either.

The specs for your scanner list 350 DPI at 104 per hour with 35mm. 5200-6000DPI would be vastly slower. Perhaps you're also using a higher bit depth than used for their rating. As they don't mention if that is B&W, CMYK, RGB or other settings. At 6000 DPI, I wouldn't expect more than one slide every 10 minutes.

All else I could think is if there is some SCSI configuration issue. Causing it to default to a lower speed. It's been too long since I've worked with SCSI to diagnose that. But I wouldn't expect too much more.

I can't find the Screen Cezanne fs 5500 specifically. I'm assuming that is actually the FT-S5500.

 

[reto0815]

sorry FT-S5500 is correct.

I scan raw data in RGB without modification
one scan is about 100MB