SCSI Question. Do these parts work together?

[MSDOS Retro]

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.

 

[MSDOS Retro]

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

 

[MSDOS Retro]

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.

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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

 

[MSDOS Retro]

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!

 

[MSDOS Retro]

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.