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Adaptec AHA2944UW 64bit driver


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#1 Rkousbroek

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Posted 30 July 2013 - 10:07 AM

Hello all,

Does anybody have a working 64bit driver for windows7 ultimate for the AHA 2944UW scsi card?

Many thanks in advance,

And regards,

Robert Kousbroek

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Posted 03 August 2013 - 01:21 AM

if win7 does not include one (the card is pretty ancient), you can either try using say an xpx64 driver (if available), and, if not using the card for a boot volume, forcing the driver using the compatibility options/allowing unsigned drivers, or try modding the drivers .inf for win7, and then attempting to force the driver through, because of the (lack of ) speed with said card, you must really need some cheap storage, as any inexpensive sata spinner (single)with decent cache should outperform a multi drive array (think a TB sata spinner with gobs of cache)in both performance and storage. if going for parity, think about two TB drives mirrored, of a couple of 500 gigers. why do you need to use the old card?

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Posted 03 August 2013 - 06:20 PM

Hello M.Oreili,

Thanks for your reply
There is indeed an Xp 64 bit driver, but I really doubt that it will work on windows7 . I can try off course. I want to use this scsi driver for old expensive thermal printers used in the offshore industry that are useless when no driver is available for them.

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Robert



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Posted 10 August 2013 - 03:14 AM

what if you used a vm of xp? would a dual boot of a distro be a nono (they usually have great scsi support), or would this negate the software used?




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