How would I use the SCSI PCI card from my older Powermac G3 Server in my Powermac G4? System profiler says that it is connected, but no drivers are installed for it. Also, it doens't appear in the "Parallel SCSI" menu. Any help would be appriciated!
*Dual 450mhz Gigabit Ethernet, OSX 10.5.8
Power Mac G4 (Gigabit), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
You have to find & install the drivers for that card if they're even availble... do you have a Brand & model#?
Leopard doesn't support SCSI worth squat, if at all.
The best thind to do is to have a second volume with Tiger on it.
Boot to that when you need SCSI.
japamac wrote:
Leopard doesn't support SCSI worth squat, if at all...
Japamac is absolutely right, of course.
I have both Tiger and Leopard boot drives in my G5 Quad which has an outstanding ATTO SCSI card (originally recommended by japamac himself), and I find myself booted into Tiger just about 99.99999% of the time.
2.5 GHz Power Mac (PPC) G5-Quad; 16GB RAM; mutant, flashed 550MHz nVidia GeForce 7800GTX, 1,700MHz 512MB VRAM; ATTO ExpressPCI UL5D LP SCSI card; Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 and Leopard 10.5.8 boot drives; Spotblight, Dashboard and Time Machine permanently disabled; dual 22" CRT monitors; USB wireless 'n' available but connected to the Internet via wired Ethernet; FW flatbed scanner; 2 SCSI scanners (one tabloid-size transparency scanner and a film scanner); various internal & external HDs; FW Epson 2200 and Ethernet Samsung ML-2850ND printers; 2 X Back-UPS RS 1500 XS units.
Hi everyone!
Some of the statements made are not entirely true. My G4 MDD is running OS X 10.5.8 Leopard and I have a PCI
SCSI card that works fine with my large UMAX SCSI large format scanner. It's a card that has original SCSI connection.
It's not an SCSI II card.
I think I had to copy the card's kext extensions, though, from my OS X 10.4.11 Tiger drive to my OS X 10.5.8 drive to get the card to be recognized and the scanner recognized in OS X 10.5.
Once I did this, the scanner and SCSI card work fine.
I think I had to copy the card's kext extensions, though, from my OS X 10.4.11 Tiger drive to my OS X 10.5.8 drive
That's because Leopard doesn't support SCSI worth squat!
I keep a Tiger volume for the sole purpose of running my Adaptec SCSI card and Coolscan III scanner.
I tried everything, work around wise, because one of the things that Leopard dropped support for was SCSI.
In the end, Tiger provides for a fine SCSI environment.
Using Powermac G3 Parts in G4
