Hi,
You are opening a can, no, a barrel of worms here. But, I will try and help. Prepare to take a drink from a fire hose....
No way to run SCSI from parallel or serial ports. They are their own adapters. There used to be PCMCIA SCSI cards, but may no longer be available.
SCSI is 50 pins for SCSI 1. 68 pins for SCSI 2.
The SCSI 1 50 pin connector is a Centronics style, but larger than the Printer which is 36 pins. You know because they do not mate up.
SCSI is differentially driven, so 25 pairs of twisted conductors. Apple had to do it wrongly, and used a 25 pin D shell connector swiped from the old serial port standard. They wired common mode since they were missing half the wires. So, the cable distance for Apple SCSI is one third that of the rest of the world.
Kodak used the Apple style of SCSI because to deal with their files required a Twain driver, and that meant Photoshop, which was originally an Apple Mac program.
That brings up another whole mess. You need to run an ancient Photoshop to use the Twain drivers. The old PS will not run right on a new machine, so you need an old one of those, too. With an old OS to boot.
I last ran this sort of lashup on a 460 using a first or second gen Apple Power PC Mac. I think I also did on a P3m laptop with Win 2k and a PCMCIA SCSI card. I think you could run XP, and as late as a P4m and XP with PS 6.
There are 50 pin to 25 pin SCSI adapters.
You also need to understand SCSI termination, something that foiled every SCSI user in the world, except for me. SCSI is a daisy chain scheme. It needs termination at *each end*. SCSI stuff comes *unterminated*. You have to turn it on whatever the end device on each end of the chain is. Or it works really wierd. And you will pull your hair out in frustration.
A PCMCIA SCSI card, fortunately, is terminated. A desktop card is not. They expect a desktop card to be in the middle, with internal hard drives to be connected, with a terminator on the last drive in the case. If you have no internal SCSI drives, you are going to have issues. It is unlikely that an internal SCSI card found surplus will have a terminator on the ribbon cable port.
The Kodak cameras are terminated only for one address. The others are unterminated. I always used an external terminator block, looks like a dongle, between the cable and the camera. This is because Apple had the controller at ID 0 but IBM had it at ID 6 and Kodak put the internal terminated ID at 6 and that would never work with a controller at 6.
None of all that is going to make *any* sense to you.
Stan
