[XCSSA] USB->SCSI adaptors

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

On Feb 16, 2007, at 5:13 PM, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:

> Has anyone used something like this before?
>
> http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10328977&loc=101&sp=1
>
> Want to hook up a scanner and/or zip drive to laptop.

Gah, Adaptec. Years ago I tried to get a USB->SCSI adapter, around  
the OS X 10.2 era I think, and got one at Fry's. Not only did it not  
have OS X drivers, but they had already "obsoleted" it and weren't  
going to make any OS X drivers. To add insult to injury they had some  
stupid corporate slogan on the box, I can't remember exactly what it  
said, but obsoleting a 2-year old piece of equipment and refusing to  
rewrite drivers, while shipping drivers for an obsolete operating  
system (I think this was after the 9.x "funeral") was not in the  
spirit of said slogan.  They also had obsoleted a bunch of SCSI PCI  
cards from the MacOS 9.x era.

So I got a no-brand Firewire to SCSI adapter, and while it could only  
support a single drive, and nothing but a drive, it worked under OS X  
without drivers.  (in fact, the supplied OS X drivers did nothing but  
break things)

Anyhow, unless you see something about this which SPECIFICALLY says  
you will be able to use it for anything but hard drives, don't expect  
such.  For all you know, it may just support a single HD as a USB  
Mass Storage device with the SCSI translation done entirely in the  
dongle.  (since after all, that's what my Firewire to SCSI dongle  
seems to do)

  - Bruce -