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Q: Umax Scanner won't work anymore

Hi, I just reconnected my Umax 2200 Scanner to my old computer(FrankenMac 7500/100 upgraded to 8500/400 G3 with OS-9.1), & keep getting warnings that I need to pick a SCSI port. It's USB. It shows up in the system profiler as connected by USB, but freezes every time I try to scan.

Any thoughts?

Thanks, Scott

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Also FrankenMac PM 7500/100 upgraded to 8500/400 G3

Posted on Jan 8, 2015 5:41 PM

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  • by a brody,

    a brody a brody Jan 8, 2015 8:14 PM in response to photoheart
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    Jan 8, 2015 8:14 PM in response to photoheart

    Umax scanners of lore had difficult time migrating to Mac OS X.    If you are running Mac OS X, you posted to the wrong forum.   Finding old Mac OS 9 drivers for Mac OS 9 probably would require hooking up the scanner via SCSI directly if it supported that scanner as most scanners in Mac OS 9 supported more SCSI than USB.  Although there are some USB drivers available for Mac OS 9 Macs.    Make sure if you have that, that all your USB and HID extensions are loaded.

     

    SCSI required proper termination, meaning if you have more than one SCSI device hooked up, a terminator had to be turned on, on the highest ID number on the chain, or a physical terminator added to the second SCSI port.

     

    Do not confuse SCSI for Parallel printer connectors found on many an old PC.  While they look similar, they are vastly different, and plugging in one in the other can damage it!

     

    If you are running Mac OS X, these scanner driver manufacturers may be of interest, as they supported many third party scanners.  This comes off my website*

     

    * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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    photoheart photoheart Jan 10, 2015 1:54 AM in response to a brody
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    Jan 10, 2015 1:54 AM in response to a brody

    Hi a brody-Thanks for your reply & the info, however I found the problem. UMAXShare extension got turned on somehow, so I threw it away.

    I was posting about the PM 8500/400 w/OS 9.1. It had a PCI card installed w/USB & Firewire. I didn't think ANY OS-9 scanners, printers, etc. could still work with OS-X. I was hooking it back up because I can scan transparencies on it. I just have an all-in-one for my OS-X 10.6.8 MacBook. It sounds like you're saying there might be a driver out there for OS-X. I'll check it out.

    Thanks, Scott