Adaptec Aic-7850 Pci Scsi Controller Driver Windows 7
- Adaptec Aic-7850 Pci Scsi Controller Driver Windows Xp
- Adaptec Aic-7850 Pci Scsi Controller Driver Windows 7
While incredibly dry and enough techno babble to make your eyes glaze over, this Post has enough info to help you overcome the “Not supported on x64” issue many manufacturers claim about their products, (this method can also work on other devices such as printers) and literally only takes about 2 minutes of your time. What it really comes down to is, it’s just text. You’ve very welcome. I find it very frustrating to have spent significant amounts of money on hardware, only to have the manufacturer claim you must purchase a new one, because this “older” technology is not compatible with the “newer” technology of a new Operating System. I hate to be so harsh, and blunt, but it’s lies. I was told this about 2 different printers from HP, a scanner from Epson, and this Adaptec 2940, and in all 4 cases, a simple edit with text of their driver file, suddenly made this “older” technology, work perfectly in the new OS.I’m thinking about beginning to do this with my next Job, at one point going in to HR and saying, “Well, NO, the INK where I signed on that offer letter has expired, it is not compatible with today’s INK, you’ll have to draft a new offer for me to sign where I get paid significantly more.”-Doc. Very, very much appreciated – worked perfectly and saved me time hassle (and, perhaps, money).
Worked with Vista 64, too, didn’t try it with 7 yet. Pleasantly suprised. You’re right about companies not taking minimal time to add software for “EOL” hardware that, frankly, has a lot of life still in it.
Plus your average user of a SCSI controller of this vintage isn’t about to go out and buy a brand new component anyway. We’re not who Adaptec markets to, but we are people who talk in the consumer market. Good word of mouth goes a long way. Anyway, hats off to you – thanks for making the internet a better place. Thanks for all of your hard work, I have yet to get it to work, Probably because I have an Adaptec AHA-2940U2W.
The hardware id’s are PCIVEN9005&DEV0010&SUBSYSA1809005. It is now showing in dev mgr but I am getting error code 10 can not start in windows 7 64 bit. Do I need to install the windows vista driver first and then these drivers? Thanks for any and all help, I am trying to get an LTO2 tape drive to work so I can back up all of my data, to many drives failing these days, 200 gig tape seems a reasonable solution if I could get it to work. Sorry for the late reply, bills and all, “YOUR A GENIUS”!! STANDING OVATION!!!!
Adaptec Aic-7850 Pci Scsi Controller Driver Windows Xp
Working perfect on Windows 10 latest build. I disabled driver signing, installed legacy device in dev manager, still no go.
Adaptec Aic-7850 Pci Scsi Controller Driver Windows 7
All I did next was right click and update driver from the same folder that I installed from on legacy. I love you my friend, I have 2 TB of data that I cant afford to loose, and opted for an LTO2 drive and 10 tapes from eBay for $100, now I can recover all of my data when a stupid HDD fails as usual.
Thanks again, I wish I could return the favor, and have a great Christmas!!!!!!!! Robert,My applogies for not seeing this until now.
I’ve been overwhelmingly preoccupied with getting married, and moving to a new residence. I have not tried this on windows 10, but I understand from other user comments that there are issues getting it to work. I would try going through the install steps again, or as another commenter stated after getting it to work: Working perfect on Windows 10 latest build. I disabled driver signing, installed legacy device in dev manager, still no go. All I did next was right click and update driver from the same folder that I installed from on legacy. I found this article on your blog while searching for an AHA-2930U2 driver for Windows 7 64-bit OS.
My SCSI card is attached to a Microtek X6EL scanner that I’ve used since the late 90s when I bought my first PC. Both the card and scanner work fine in Windows 7 32-bit (I’m using VueScan’s software to access the scanner), but I can’t install the driver in Windows 7 64-bit after following your instructions because Windows claims that the driver doesn’t support this version of Windows. I tried installing the driver using the normal Device Manager “Update Driver” procedure as well as the “Add Legacy Hardware” procedure. I also read the article on VueScan’s website about their modified driver procedure, but this doesn’t seem to apply to the 2930U2 card because the hardware ID for my card isn’t included on their list or in the modifications to the.inf file that is provided on their website. (The link to their website is in OrphanCat’s post on May 13, 2015 above.) Do you have any other suggestions for me to try? Thanks for responding to my post. I was beginning to wonder if you still monitor this page.
Fortunately, you do.To answer your question, yes I did. Instead of typing in the hardware ID, I copied and pasted it into the.inf file to make sure I didn’t type it incorrectly. My hardware ID has four entries, which are as follows:PCIVEN9005&DEV0011&SUBSYS01819005&REV00PCIVEN9005&DEV0011&SUBSYS01819005PCIVEN9005&DEV0011&CC010000PCIVEN9005&DEV0011&CC0100As you can see, mine starts with “VEN9005” instead of “VEN9004” as is the case with all the other hardware IDs listed in the modified.inf file at the VueScan link above and in your article. Windows 7 does not like the default 32-bit driver for my 2930U2 card (aic78u2.sys). Though Win7 did successfully install it, afterwards it said the driver doesn’t support this version of Windows. Not only did I have to uninstall the driver and start over, I had to remove the driver from the DriverStore folder using pnputil per the instructions at the following link.aspxThen I was able to install the driver that you and others have used (djsvs.sys) using a modified djsvs.inf file with my hardware ID inserted at the proper place. However, when I did this, Windows said it couldn’t “start” the driver and gave me a “Code 10” error.
This happened even when I tried to install the driver using the Add Legacy Hardware option. So, I suspect that there is an incompatibility between the Vista 64-bit driver and my card. There are a few lines in the dvsjs.inf file that do not exist in the aic78xx.inf and aic78u2.inf files that may have something to do with this incompatibility, but I don’t know enough about the code in these files to be sure of this. Here are the lines I’m referring to:createinitiatorluHKR, “ParametersDevice”,”CreateInitiatorLU”,0x00010001,1LegacyScsiportValuesHKR,Scsiport,BusNumberHKR,Scsiport,LegacyInterfaceTypeHKR,Scsiport,SlotNumberHKR,ScsiportDestinationDirsDefaultDestDir = 12Also, under the aic78u2ServiceInst heading in the aic78u2.inf file is the following additional entry that isn’t in the djsvs.inf file:AddReg = bustypescsiThis entry is also in the aic78xxServiceInst heading of the aic78xx.inf file. Correspondingly, the following section exists immediately after the above heading in both of these.inf files but not in the djsvs.inf file:;.;These addreg sections should be used for non-SCSI miniports;to indicate what STORAGEBUSTYPE they actually do support.bustypescsiHKR, “Parameters”, “BusType”, 0x00010001, 0x00000001According to the discussion at the following link, some guy named R. White was able to get his 2930U2 card working in Windows XP 64-bit using a modified pnpscsi.inf file:(I downloaded a copy of pnpscsi.inf from somewhere if you’re interested in seeing it.)Apparently, WinXP 64-bit can use the aic78u2.sys driver that Windows 7 can’t.
Some of the other forums I found on this same issue (though most of them do not mention the 2930U2 card) are as follows:If you have any other ideas, I’d be interested in hearing them. Thanks for your continued help on this issue!Tom. Thanks for the suggestion, but I’m skeptical because Windows 7 recognizes that the 2930U2 driver is for an older OS. Also, Adaptec didn’t even add support for 64-bit Vista or XP to this driver, although one person was able to get it to work with XP64 by modifying the.inf file. I haven’t been able to find anyone who got it to work with Vista64 (or even tried, for that matter). What I am thinking of trying, however, is to insert the sections from the 2930U2.inf file that are not present in the djsvs.inf file to see if that helps.
I’m also curious if there is any info out there on the “Code 10” error besides the message that Windows 7 provides. Perhaps that could be of help as well.What I have done in the meantime is pull my original Adaptec AHA-2902 card out of my old PC that I seldom use anymore and inserted it into my Windows 7 machine. I was able to get the modified djsvs driver to install successfully and recognize the scanner.
Because of all the obstacles I encountered with the 2930U2 card, I may just give up on it after trying a few more things. Considering that I have a 2902 card that does work with 64-bit Windows 7 (and probably Windows 10 as well), I’ll probably keep this setup and stop using the old PC. I’ll let you know if I make any more progress with the 2930U2. Thanks again for your help! I’ve been reading the comments to this blog post with great interest.
I installed Win7x64 then months later, I installed my old Adaptec AC-7850 SCSI card so I could use my HP-5p scanner. Lo and behold, there were no Win7 drivers to run the card. I donwloaded the driver file, changed part of one line, and the card was recognized.
Next step was to get the driver for the scanner. Unfortunately, HP did not update the scanner driver. I bought and downloaded VueScan and it worked perfectly with a still perfectly good 20-year-old scanner. Thanks for all the help.
If you can find someone with a Vista x64 system there is an 'Adaptec AIC-7870 PCI SCSI Controller (Emulated)' driver in the Driver Store on that system that will work with Windows 7 for a AHA-2940 card. For some reason, that driver was dropped from the in-box drivers in Windows 7. It is located in the C:WindowsSystem32DriverStoreFileRepositorydjsvs.inf6451fbc2 folder. Copy that djsvs.inf6451fbc2 folder to your Windows 7 computer.
To install it, go to Device Manager, select your SCSI adapter, right click and choose Update Driver Software. In the Window that appears choose 'Browse my computer for driver software'. In the next window, enter the location of the djsvs.inf6451fbc2 folder on your computer, then click Next. You will get warnings about the driver being unsigned and that it may not work.
Say yes, you really do want to install the driver - it will work. If you can find someone with a Vista x64 system there is an 'Adaptec AIC-7870 PCI SCSI Controller (Emulated)' driver in the Driver Store on that system that will work with Windows 7 for a AHA-2940 card. For some reason, that driver was dropped from the in-box drivers in Windows 7. It is located in the C:WindowsSystem32DriverStoreFileRepositorydjsvs.inf6451fbc2 folder. Copy that djsvs.inf6451fbc2 folder to your Windows 7 computer. To install it, go to Device Manager, select your SCSI adapter, right click and choose Update Driver Software.
In the Window that appears choose 'Browse my computer for driver software'. In the next window, enter the location of the djsvs.inf6451fbc2 folder on your computer, then click Next.
You will get warnings about the driver being unsigned and that it may not work. Say yes, you really do want to install the driver - it will work. Don't feel bad Phil! I had a little trouble getting it to work too.
I then left the folder on my D: drive and went through the procedure as if I were installing it as a new driver. When it wants to browse or have you tell it where thefolder is located, select that you will choose from the Adaptec selections available in Windows 7. Then select 'I have a disk' and direct it to drive D: or wherever you have the folder stored. It then installed the driver okay and I am runningjust fine. Good Luck and thanks to the person who found this fix. I had been toiling with an Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe mobo trying to get it to work with my SCSI drives to NO avail.
The same 29160 or 39160 Adaptec boards I have that would work on Asus M4A88T-V EVOUSB3 and M4A89TD Pro mobos would not work on the A8N-SliDeluxe. I xferred the SCSI controller with the cable and terminator as well as initialized drive from the working config to the A8N Sli Deluxe and still nothing.
It would recognize the controller but would not initialize the drive. I also had an AHA 2940UWbut the Adaptec site didn't have 64 bit drivers for Windows 7 so, I'd almost given up.The trick Autopilot7 relates above worked 100% for me. I got the file from the link below:and followed the instructions as described by Autopilot7 and VOILA, I can see the SCSI drive!Many thanks. Update - I have found how to force Windows to install the device as Legacy hardware (use Device manager, Action and Add Legacy Hardware). Device manager now shows the SCSI card as an AHA-2940U/AHA-2940UW/AHA-2940D PCI SCSI Controller under storage controllers.it is also showing Adaptec AIC-7870 PCI SCSI Controller (Emulated).The DJSVS.inf file shows the text as supplied by MartinBravo.It is also showing as a SCSI controller under Other devices with no driver. I have uninstalled this device but Device Manager keeps picking it up as new hardware.The forced appearances show the drivers from the DJSVS RAR file (installed to WindowsSystem 32DriversDJSVS.sys) driver provided by Adaptec version 6.0.0.0 but has the yellow warning triangle and 'Code 10 this device will not start'So still no success.30 July - Success!!!!So the SCSI controller has let me install the drivers today, first time round I installed the AHA driver but this did not seem to do anything.
I updated this dri.