making SCSI card work?

[Ernest Burden III]

It's been so long since I dealt with this thing, I can't remember what to do. I have an machine that started having a problem (not starting at all) and I decided to ditch it--I don't have time to mess with it. The one thing in the computer that I still need is a SCSI card to run my old but great AGFA Arcus II scanner. The dead machine had been NT4, then W2k, then XP. The scanner software did not like XP, but it would work.

 

I put the card -- an Adaptec AHA-2940UW Pro -- into another XP machine.....and what? There was something in the BIOS perhaps to set? I remember seeing something about the SCSI settings in the bootup sequence before the OS GUI loaded on the old machine.

 

The card is still supported by Adaptec, but lists every OS since W95 up to Vista except XP, no XP driver, and no internal driver in XP. Perhaps I could use the W2K driver instead?

 

I'm really lost with making this card work. Any suggestions?

[newdirection]

Have you read this?

 

http://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/installation_guides/aha2940uwpro_ig.pdf

 

I'm particularly referring to SCSI IDs, the cable and termination. Have you checked Device Manager to see if the card is listed? It's been a while since I dealt with SCSI but these were always the source of my problems.

[Ernest Burden III]

Have you read this?

 

On paper, I think, back in the old days. I love this line "If the operating system is not yet installed, install it now". Oh, that must be my problem--no OS!

 

Thanks, but that document pre-dates XP. If the other machine were starting at all (never powers up enough to even post any video) I could simply look at how it was set up.

 

I suppose I should give the W2K driver a go. And I had checked, device manager does not see the device properly.

[AJLynn]

If you Google AHA-2940UW Pro XP you get some hits, like this

[Ernest Burden III]

If you Google AHA-2940UW Pro XP you get some hits, like this

 

I googled, just didn't add the 'XP'. Thanks. I'm hesitant to just run some .exe with 1000 drivers in it when Adaptec's site does not have one for XP, but has bothered to have them from W95 to Vista.

 

More than the driver, I'm wondering what made the Adaptec SCSI-Select utility come up during pre-OS boots. How was that done?

 

Its hard when you have something that has worked for years but you can't remember how you made it work.

[Ernest Burden III]

The Adaptec site does lead down dark and unfamiliar paths to reveal that there is a driver for this old card for XP-64.

 

I didn't mean for anyone to spend their time doing searches I can and should do, just was hoping someone had in memory some info on making this thing work again.