Ava-2903b Drivers For Mac
I've just acquired an Adaptec 2903b SCSI card so I can borrow an old Nikon Coolscan to scan my transparencies into my G4 which will effectively becomemainly a photographic resource. Checking out the G4 system, the Parallel SCSI section gives the message 'This system does not contain any Parallel SCSI devices' with the 2903b, although with a 2906 card it recognises both the card and the scanner. I've uninstalled the driver several times and checked the seating of the card, and afterwards reinstalled the Adaptec 2906 driver as it seems to be what Adaptec suggest when I search for a 2903 driver.
I am getting the impression that the card is too old to work with 10.5.8 and is effectively scrap for my purposes. Could anyone confirm that or shouldI persevere trying to get it to work, in which case some suggestions wouldbe appreciated. It's New Old stock, if you know what I mean, so I suppose it could actually just be faulty. I know it would be easier just to stick with the 2906, but that belongs in the G4 the Nikon is usually connected to, so that isn't an option as none of them belong to me. I've just acquired an Adaptec 2903b SCSI card so I can borrow an old Nikon Coolscan to scan my transparencies into my G4 which will effectively become mainly a photographic resource.
Checking out the G4 system, the Parallel SCSI section gives the message 'This system does not contain any Parallel SCSI devices' with the 2903b, although with a 2906 card it recognises both the card and the scanner. I've uninstalled the driver several times and checked the seating of the card, and afterwards reinstalled the Adaptec 2906 driver as it seems to be what Adaptec suggest when I search for a 2903 driver.
I am getting the impression that the card is too old to work with 10.5.8 and is effectively scrap for my purposes. Could anyone confirm that or should I persevere trying to get it to work, in which case some suggestions would be appreciated. It's New Old stock, if you know what I mean, so I suppose it could actually just be faulty. I know it would be easier just to stick with the 2906, but that belongs in the G4 the Nikon is usually connected to, so that isn't an option as none of them belong to me. Click to expand.The 2903B will definitely work with the as-distributed OS 10.3, and possibly 10.4.
The driver is identical in both OS versions. I'm not sure what happened with all this on 10.5, other than many major changes were made.
If it doesn't work on 10.4, you'll have to dump it (Adaptec's) driver (don't let the OS load it, anyway) and, if that doesn't 'just work,' lightly patch the Apple 'generic' SCSI driver (Adaptec78XX kernel extension). First, with the 2903B card installed, launch the Terminal program and issue this command - ioreg -l ioreg.txt This will dump lots of data into a text file named ioreg.txt.
I've just acquired an Adaptec 2903b SCSI card so I can borrow an old Nikon Coolscan to scan my transparencies into my G4 which will effectively become mainly a photographic resource. Checking out the G4 system, the Parallel SCSI section gives the message 'This system does not contain any Parallel SCSI devices' with the 2903b, although with a 2906 card it recognises both the card and the scanner. I've uninstalled the driver several times and checked the seating of the card, and afterwards reinstalled the Adaptec 2906 driver as it seems to be what Adaptec suggest when I search for a 2903 driver. I am getting the impression that the card is too old to work with 10.5.8 and is effectively scrap for my purposes. Could anyone confirm that or should I persevere trying to get it to work, in which case some suggestions would be appreciated.
It's New Old stock, if you know what I mean, so I suppose it could actually just be faulty. I know it would be easier just to stick with the 2906, but that belongs in the G4 the Nikon is usually connected to, so that isn't an option as none of them belong to me. Click to expand.The Adaptec 2906 SCSI card stopped working with my scanner and SCSI tape system in 10.3. Retrospect could see and drive the tape but when it tried to eject it, the system would panic. It worked fine in 10.2. About that time Adaptec stopped selling and supporting the SCSI card and the only place you could get it was on eBay (which is where I got mine).
They've made no updates to the drivers since 10.2. I'd be very surprised if there's any driver that's Intel-based and runs on 10.4 or later. You're best bet is to plug the thing into a PC and use the drivers that come with your version of Windows if they're still on the Adaptec site. Thanks to everybody, even the grandchild, for all of those suggestions, which I'll work my way through as and when I have the patience and mood to do battle with the system. Both the G4s have dual internal hard disks, so I suppose dedicating one of those to an older os x system and then booting up in that system to use the scanner is a possibility. I could even see if there's an OS 9 system that I could install, although even when I got the machine new I never started it in OS 9, and I suspect I canned it to release disk space.
My G4 has long been replaced for day to day use by a MacBook so the real reason for having 10.5 is to have w working browser. Success with 2903b and OS X. Thanks to everyone. Deleted and uninstalled the Adaptec 2906 driver. Opened System Preferences,and rebooted it in 10.4.11 from the original HDD. System profiler now shows a SCSI domain and the scanner.
So 10.4, no adaptec driver seems to be the secret. I'll still keep hunting for a 10.5 solution tho.
The 2903b was bundled with a series of film scanners including Minolta, Microtek and I think Canon, but not of course for the Nikon and they show OS Xdownloads to use with a 2903b. I'll investigate whether loading these might cause the card to be recognised in 10.5. Absolutely free vlc for mac.
Thanks everyone for then other suggestions which `I'll work through.
OK I found it! Found the driver on Driverguide.com. (strange, I could swear that this driver was not there last week!). I created an OS9.2.2 startup HD on a separate HD - so without OSX. Installed the driver, installed MESA straight from the AkaiPro website.
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So I have full control over my Akai S2000 sampler via MESA. Then I also installed the driver on the other HD where OSX is running. Installed it in the OS9/Extensions folder and wanted to install it also in the Extensions on the OSX System folder. Came a message 'installation was not necessary'.
Result: it still does NOT work in Classic under OSX. The PCI card appears on the System Profiler, but with nothing connected to it. I'll keep looking for clues. This is just a theory: I suspect when booting natively in OS9, your device software is compatible with the OS9 scsi card extension and all is well. However, when booting in OSX, the OSX scsi driver takes over, finds the card OK, however, OS9, running in Classic emulation within OSX, doesn't see the card.
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I have the same situation with my old scsi-based Apple scanner & Adaptec card in my G4. The original Apple-One-Scanner software cannot find the scsi card except when natively booting to OS9. The only OSX work-around to use the Apple scanner was to purchase a $50 shareware scanner driver specifically written for OSX. With that, my old Apple Scanner lives.
If it was not for stubborn determination to ge the scanner to work under OSX, the econonics would have had me put the shareware $ towards a new scanner. Quicksilver Mac OS X (10.3.5). Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the.