Leopard killed my Adaptec 2906 SCSI board

With 10.5.0, my 2930 worked fine with my HP Scanner. Now with 10.5.1 the system does not see the scanner. I've left feedback with Apple regarding the change. I can still boot into 10.4 (on an external hard drive) and use the scanner there but it is a little bit of a hassle.

Regards,

That's good to "hear."

Regards,

You might also check with Adaptec to see if they have an updated driver for 10.5, which is probably what broke it in the first place.

Rather late for this discussion but I will put my 2 cents in anyway. I have a Adaptec 2930** card in my Powermac G4 Dual 867 MDD. In 10.5 or 1.5.1 or 10.5.2 it works as a Read Only device after installing the old Adaptec Driver. That is I can freely use my film scanner and my hard drive can be read but I cannot reformat it or write to it. This seems to be the experience of many Adaptec SCSI card user when booted into Leopard.

Now I am aware that Adaptec is not developing any new card SCSI drivers.It bit strange as they still sell the 2906 card to Mac users. However, that does not prevent Apple from keeping their system software from working with those drivers and cards. Apple chose to supply those drivers already installed in all versions of System X from approximately 10.2.6 through 10.4.11 which in effect probaly encouraged people to buy Adaptec cards as opposed to others. It beats me that they had to design 10.5 so that it is not completely compatible with these cards and drivers.

Apparantly they knew that 10.5 was not completely compatible as they chose not to include the old Adaptec drivers with 10.5. I do not think that was an accident.

It would be nice if Apple saw fit to keep faith with its old customers (I have a Mac since 1988) and make 10.5 compatible with our SCSI cards or perhaps modify the drivers themselves to make it so. At the very least if that could not reasonably be done they should explain why that is so.

Frankly I feel the same way about the elimination of "Classic." I have many oldf programs I still use. Was it really necessary or orphan those programs.Is 10.5 so different that Classic could not be accomodated. This is particularly a problem because one gets forced to go to a new system as Apple frequently realease software which works only with there latest satem update. Most software manufactures succeed perfectly well in making their programs work with at least 2 generations and sometimes 3 generations of System X. Apple I am sure could do the same and as a user I am alienated by the fact that they do not.

So, it would be a nice change if Apple considered us old users and made the system and our old Adaptec SCSI cards consistent with each other.

Leonard Gordon

I have the same problem- an older 12g scsi hard drive using an adaptec controller suddenly won't work in Leopard. Why? I'm having so many Leopard problems i'm tempted to say fck this go back to XP. XP was very buggy, but at least it worked. I have an emagic midi patchbay giving me grief, Protools that won't work at all, Garageband won't load because of a font conflict, and now my scsi harddrive won't work. I've spent days trying to figure this out. This is nuts. We have better things to do with our lives then to sit around a computer for days uninstalling and reinstalling software.

Richard,

FYI
I'm using VueScan to drive two Agfa 1236 scsi scanners with an Adaptec 2930** card. Downloaded the last version OSX driver from Adaptec and tried to install on Leopard drive - installation failed.
Rebooted with Tiger drive (I made sure to keep it on a separate HD) and ran the installer, installing it on the Leopard drive. Installation worked and I can now use my scanners without having to revert back to Tiger.

Also, if memory serves, when Tiger came out, there were problems with Adaptec drivers and extensions reported. Something to the effect of removing one of the .kext drivers, force the extension cache to be rebuild.

I owned 39160 and 29160 for my 'Smurf and G4 MDD but also picked up an ATTO or two along the way. Support seemed to flip-flop as to what was best supported. I even read on http://www.xlr8yourmac.com that Leopard had re-introduced support (still had to use the Adaptec 1.3 beta driver) for the 39160 - at least in some systems.

ATTO is saying that until they work around some changes made to 10.5.2, to stay with 10.5.1 for now.... just great, really great. FirmTek advises to wait until the system is loaded before powering on drives with their SeriTek controller.

I can see where knowing when and if to have a device powered on/off on startup, might be hard to troubleshoot if it will work or supported, whether an OS or something. I really liked the 39160, was the only card at the time that would run in the 'Smurf's 66MHz slot and overcome the slow I/O those systems suffered from.

I was having this same problem and came upon this thread. It's been a few months since anyone posted here, but I was able to install the driver linked below in Leopard with no issues. I'm using Vuescan to operate my Agfa Duoscan with no problems on a Dual 800 G4 running Leopard Server.

http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/mac/scsi/apd2930X_v11hqx.htm