Hi,
I recently got a really cheap ScanMate Plus. I know it's not the best scanner and super old (heck I couldn't even find the exact specs anywhere) but it cost me 50 bucks and I want to learn a bit about drum scanning - so it felt like a perfect opportunity. That said I ended up slightly stuck with too many unknowns (aka cheapest components I could find) to be really sure how to best progress. In other words, I'd love some advice from ppl that know what they're doing .
The setup/status
ScanMate Plus
It powers on and goes to "ready" when the mac is powered up too.
G8 Mac
Boots, seem to work well, I installed ColorQuartet 5.2.2 on it, and right now starting CQscan hangs indefinitely seemingly in the SCSI probe from what I can tell the console says.
ATTO UL3D SCSI card
Recognized by the OS, the iotool shows the card and the different SCSI id's (all empty/unused), I suspect something here.
Small stuff
I have a 68 -> 50 SCSI cable I connect the scanner with, and a active 50 SCSI terminator I put in the second port of the scanner.
Console
This is what baffles me the most, my reading suggests that the serial port on the scanmate (at least 4000, I couldn't find an older manual) should activate debug mode when the toggle switch 8, with 9600 Bound, 8 bits, 1 stop bit, no parity. I get nothing from that.
So bottom line, any advice on debugging this further? My next ideas are:
1) Try OS X 9 with Color Trio or an older version of ColorQuartet
2) Try to find some old cheap SCSI device to validate that the card can detect devices (I don't think it's a problem as I can list the SCSI items but better safe than sorry)
3) Perhaps it's a cable issue?
4) Validate the Serial Port connection with another device with a serial port (I might have an old switch somewhere that has one, but I used the connector successfully before so I don't think that is it either)
5) Open up the scanner and poke at the internals (what could go wrong?)
6) Try to find a g4 mac (I read some horror stories about g5's not working, I would like to avoid that as well more computers take more space)
7) Try to find a windows XP machine that I could try with (or a SCSI card that would do the trick in a VM)
Any other suggestions?
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