[alt-photo] Re: scanner woes

[clay at clayharmon.com]

If you have a mac pro you can dedicate one of the spare slots to a drive that contains the older version of Mac OS and software. If you hold down the cmd-option key combo on boot, you can select the old version as your boot volume.
On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Mark Nelson wrote:

> Ryuji,
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> I did set up an external drive with Snow Leopard and it seemed to run fine, but I did not try those softwares for my flatbed scanner. 
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> Mark Nelson
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> sent from my iPhonetypeDeviceThingy
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> On Jan 4, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Ryuji Suzuki <rs at silvergrain.org> wrote:
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>> Mark,
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>> Have you tried that?
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>> My understanding is that, even the latest update version of Snow Leopard lacks proper drivers and configuration profile for the latest hardware that was released after Lion came out. The current MacPro, iMac and Macbook Pro's predate Lion, so external hard drive approach might work. Current Mac Mini and Macbook Air were released with Lion, and they are known to be problematic to install Snow Leopard (the installer packages are not the latest update, which is one part of the problems) and to make work at full performance under Snow Leopard (due to lack of proper hardware configuration data in the OS), even if the installation is done with another (slightly older) computer.
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>> Tablet operation is wonderful when sitting in trains or on toilets, but I'd rather not bring it to my desktop environment (at least not as implemented in Lion). I've been using MacOS only since Tiger but this is the first time I felt they made it worse.
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>> --
>> Ryuji Suzuki
>> "Don't play what's there, play what's not there." (Miles Davis)
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>> Nelson Mark wrote:
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>>> One thing you might consider with your iMac is to set up a boot drive with Snow Leopard.  I've done this with my Lion OS computer when I need to run any Legacy software and it works just fine.  If you are doing 8 x 10 and get a new Epson scanner, get the one where you can wet mount so you can avoid Newton Rings in your scans.
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