SCSI Question. Do these parts work together?

[Noname1234]

Parts:

Adaptec AHA 2940W/2940UW controller
HDD: HP ST336706LW 36 GB Ultra3 10K SCSI Drive
Terminator: Amphenol SCSI LVD/SE G5925733

Do these work together, or maybe i need another drive?

Any help will be appreciated

 

[Solaris17]

Just took a Quick Look while at work. They should work fine.

 

[SPDIF]

AFAIK, it should do the trick. I use myself an Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI on an older rig. But this is using the Low Voltage Differential controller.

I am using this card, almost the same as yours, but can also work with SCSI-3.

 

[Noname1234]

When i setup the controller and drive, the start of the cable is for the controller. The next connector goes to the HDD. Where do i put the Terminator? Is it at the position after the HDD, or the last connector at the end of the cable?

And how do i set the ID for the drive? Is that with jumpers or in the SCSI BIOS?

I remember from a friend who had a card like this, when the cards get detected by the BIOS, you could press i think CTRL-F to go into a SCSI BIOS?

And a card like this, where was it build in? P2, P3 or later?

 

[SPDIF]

Yes terminator at the end of the cable, after the last device.
When you boot up, it will print right on the screen what keys you need to go into the BIOS.

In my case i have to use key combination CTRL-A

You can set the ID in the bios, but normally the bios will do that automatically in case of an HDD. SCSI controller always have ID-7

If you are booting from a SCSI hard disk drive, make sure the
Hard Disk (or Drives) setting in your computer’s CMOS setup
program is set to None or No Drives Installed, as is required
for SCSI hard disk drives.

It was used with Windows 95/98, but it also works in Windows 7, then a P2 or P3 should work, i now even use it with an AMD 3870K Quad core CPU in windows 7.
Microchip has taken over Adaptec, but you can find the drivers there. for Win95/98/Vista/Win7

Here you find all the info and drivers needed;

Adaptec - AHA-2940UW

 

[Noname1234]

In my setup, is the one bottlenecking the other? Or do the speeds matching with each other?
Maybe when i find a card like yours in future, i will buy one.

Thanks so far. I'll hope to find the time this weekend to try make it work.

 

[Steevo]

What’s it going into? That should provide some serious PCI limited speed.

 

[SPDIF]

If you use an older CPU then me, it all will work, but slower. And my AMD does not work in Win95/98 anyway. So if you use P2 or P3 best to install windows 98/ME.

For some reason, there are no XP drivers available.

 

[A Computer Guy]

AFAIK, it should do the trick. I use myself an Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI on an older rig. But this is using the Low Voltage Differential controller.

I am using this card, almost the same as yours, but can also work with SCSI-3.

View attachment 357113

I used to have this card with two drives (Seagate and WD) and a terminated cable. The terminator was built into my cable. I think I still had to adjust a jumper on one of the drives though. I would lookup the tech data for each drive you plan to use to see if there is any special jumper settings. If you are lucky it will be printed on the sticker of the SCSI drive. I may still have the drivers for this card in my archive.

 

[SPDIF]

I have two IBM SCSI HDD and i can terminate on the drive itself on the backside.

Ir works at a reasonable speed with my AMD 3870K (FM-1) but with more cores Windows 7 does not work so good, and the drivers from Adaptec may lockup.

I play Diablo 2 + Expansion OFFline on that system now, the build-in Radeon 6550 in the CPU is fast enough! But i say it wrong, an AMD 3870K is called a AMD APU-A8

 

[natr0n]

getting ptsd from the though of the sounds

 

[Noname1234]

What’s it going into? That should provide some serious PCI limited speed.

That's the question!
I have more options:

P2-400 (Windows 98)
P3-733 (dont know whats running.... ME or 2000) But after a reinstall i think choose 98 or ME
P3-1400 Tualatin (Windows 2000 Pro)

 

[SPDIF]

The faster CPU will make all going faster, but then the OS is also using more resources. I think Windows 7 is the best to play with, because drivers are easier to find.

But if you really want to go back to the good old times, then an P3 or P2 with Windows 98/ME should work excellent!

I am using now Windows 7-64 bit Ultimate version. And no hangs or lockups!

 

[Noname1234]

when i try to download the files it gives me a:

Not Found​

The requested URL was not found on this server



Thats bad...

 

[Calenhad]

What’s it going into? That should provide some serious PCI limited speed.

Not sure how you came to this conclusion, that HDD have a best case transfer rate of about half the PCI bus bandwidth

when i try to download the files it gives me a:

Not Found​

The requested URL was not found on this server



Thats bad...

Not working for me either. I would check out archive dot org or something. There are some old driver collections posted there for example.

 

[SPDIF]

What happened? 1 month ago i did download the drivers without problem, me to getting the same error.

I found another download here for your card.

Download:aic78xx aic78u2 win7 2k8r2 x86 v605457.exe(idinf:43903)

www.driverscloud.com

Works in Vista until Win 8.1, works also in Win10-X86 version.

But remember this;
Beginning with Windows 10, version 2004, all new Windows 10 systems will be required to use 64-bit builds and Microsoft will no longer release 32-bit builds for OEM distribution.
You can download an old Win10 ISO here; https://archive.org/details/en-us_windows_10_consumer_editions_version_22h2_x86_dvd_90883feb
And a max of 4GB memory.

 

[Steevo]

That's the question!
I have more options:

P2-400 (Windows 98)
P3-733 (dont know whats running.... ME or 2000) But after a reinstall i think choose 98 or ME
P3-1400 Tualatin (Windows 2000 Pro)

Windows ME was very MEH. 2000 is NT based kernel so far more stable and the precursor to XP. Anything that Windows 200 can run Windows XP can run too, the biggest reason to use 98 of XP is DOS and lighter resources by about 20% when tuned. I'm assuming also these systems will never connect to the internet or connect behind a very secure firewall with all the dangerous services turned off and a good DNS (like openDNS) to prevent redirect hijacks.

The 1400 Tualatin with good RAM should be fast, I feel bad I recycled a bunch of RAM that I had kept from killing old PC's out of some medical offices and I know there was at least 512MB of DDR in there.

 

[Noname1234]

With this card i want to go for a Pentium 2/3 build i think. Isnt the P3 1400 Tualatin faster on its IDE bus? ASUS TUSL2C mobo.

Im gonna download de 7 drivers to be safe, but with P2/P3-700 in mind I choose Windows ME over 98. I had a lot better experience with that OS in the past. Less blue screens then 98. But maybe i will make a dual boot if possible. With 36GB of Drive Space, i have enough i guess

 

[Steevo]

With this card i want to go for a Pentium 2/3 build i think. Isnt the P3 1400 Tualatin faster on its IDE bus? ASUS TUSL2C mobo.

Im gonna download de 7 drivers to be safe, but with P2/P3-700 in mind I choose Windows ME over 98. I had a lot better experience with that OS in the past. Less blue screens then 98. But maybe i will make a dual boot if possible. With 36GB of Drive Space, i have enough i guess

PCI is theoretically possible of 266Mbps if it's a full duplex but most slots were wired for 133Mbps, and the last IDE standard was 133Mbps. So...


PCIe and Sata as absurd as they seemed at the time would be the fastest choice. A single 10K SCSI drive like that should sustain around 60Mbps read speed, the 10K RPM will make it responsive compared to consumer drives of the time.

 

[SPDIF]

Do not forget that an old OS like W98 also has much less resources needed than now, so i can tell it sometimes load faster with SCSI then any modern PC now!
Windows 98 works lightning fast with SCSI i can tell you. So the speed of that 32-bit PCI slot plays no role with such an old OS. Even Windows 7 loads with SCSI in less then 13 seconds!
Naturally, the more programs load with windows the slower it goes, but that is not different nowadays.

Then real fun is to see that everything is working like long time ago, play around with it, play old games, and much more other fun. Go to the internet is a big NO for me, if you are not behind a firewall, then Windows 95 for example is infected in minutes without doing anything. Windows 95 is an open door on the internet.

But it's no fun anyway trying to go on internet with this old OS. It even can't load the Google search page anymore... Then you have more fun running it in a Virtual Machine.
For old games and programs and the feeling from when i was a young boy, memory's come back...

I still remember my first Intel 80286-12Mhz...

 

[eidairaman1]

Windows ME was very MEH. 2000 is NT based kernel so far more stable and the precursor to XP. Anything that Windows 200 can run Windows XP can run too, the biggest reason to use 98 of XP is DOS and lighter resources by about 20% when tuned. I'm assuming also these systems will never connect to the internet or connect behind a very secure firewall with all the dangerous services turned off and a good DNS (like openDNS) to prevent redirect hijacks.

The 1400 Tualatin with good RAM should be fast, I feel bad I recycled a bunch of RAM that I had kept from killing old PC's out of some medical offices and I know there was at least 512MB of DDR in there.

Without ME there would have not been System Restore

 

[Noname1234]

I contacted the mentioned site from "Adaptec" but as they said on the site, they couldn't help me with the drivers.


I try to collect the drivers for the 2940W/UW/U2W for OS-es DOS, and Windows (3.1(1) till 2000.(And everything between)

Can i trust a site like "Driver Scape"?

Any good known sources will also be appreciated.

 

[A Computer Guy]

I contacted the mentioned site from "Adaptec" but as they said on the site, they couldn't help me with the drivers.


I try to collect the drivers for the 2940W/UW/U2W for OS-es DOS, and Windows (3.1(1) till 2000.(And everything between)

Can i trust a site like "Driver Scape"?

Any good known sources will also be appreciated.

I have these drivers in my archive from around year 2000. I created a temporary download SCSI_2940U2W.7z here https://gofile.io/d/1BRdGM if you want to try. Looks like I also had a firmware update 2572 too but I don't remember how to apply it. If I remember correctly the windows 2000 driver will work on XP.

I have to leave for vacation for awhile so hopefully you can grab the download before it expires. Good luck.

If you happen to have the 29160 card I have those drivers as well.

 

[Noname1234]

If you happen to have the 29160 card I have those drivers as well.

Thanks a lot for these!
Always welcome these drivers too. I want to collect as much as possible from their cards (Adaptec)

 

[stinger608]

I have these drivers in my archive from around year 2000. I created a temporary download SCSI_2940U2W.7z here https://gofile.io/d/1BRdGM if you want to try. Looks like I also had a firmware update 2572 too but I don't remember how to apply it. If I remember correctly the windows 2000 driver will work on XP.

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I have to leave for vacation for awhile so hopefully you can grab the download before it expires. Good luck.

If you happen to have the 29160 card I have those drivers as well.

Damn!!!! That is awesome to share these man.

Them can be difficult to near impossible to find.

I've got an old Dell SCSI system that I'm going revive again. This will help a ton when loading Win2K!!!!!

You're friggin awesome @A Computer Guy