En 1996 je télécharge les pilotes #Adaptec de la carte SCSI pour installer NT4.

En 2026 je télécharge les pilotes #intel pour installer #Windows 11 sur un portable #Dell

On arrête pas le progrès 😅

Good 'ol times ...

#retrocomputing #adaptec #scsi

Adaptec AAR-1430SA Firmware Download

https://blog.sengotta.net/adaptec-aar-1430sa-firmware-download/

It seems that Adaptec / Microsemi stopped offering Firmware downloads for their old hardware like the Adaptec AAR-1430SA Raid controller. Which is kind of sad because most of them just continue to work fine and you can find them for cheap on online marketplaces. I mean whats that for a bitch move. Hosting a sub 1 megabyte file could not be the Problem for a company like Mircosemi.

The only culprit is that older Firmware Versions do not support harddisks bigger than 2.2TB. Means if you get such a card and dont have the update file, you have a problem.

A nice person from Ukraine contacted my with that problem, so i dumped my bios from my card (after searching for a suitable afu.exe for two hours), but in the mean time the problem was solved because this person found an archive of the original firmware by itself in the depth of the web. This has the davantage that does not change the cards serial number just like my dump would do.

So now i can offer you the download of this Firmware and driver archive so anyone who gets such a card in the future could update it, and use ist.

Simply use a FreeDOS boot drive for that (but dont use Unetbootin its outdated).

1430SA.2507Herunterladen

Use it a your own risk, firmware Updates are always risky.

#adaptec #firmware #hardware

@bjoern

Adaptec AAR-1430SA Firmware Download – Björns Techblog

Wo sind die Zeiten als man mit einem #Adaptec SCSI Controller noch angeben konnte!? (gun)
El 1 de noviembre de 1999 Adaptec (compañía de almacenamiento computacional) anuncia que comprará DPT (proveedor de soluciones RAID de almacenamiento) por 235 millones usd. Adaptec luego dejo de existir el 8 de junio de 2010
#retrocomputingmx #adaptec

Adaptec AVA-2903B SCSI driver

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/adaptec-ava-2903b-scsi-driver

Driver extension for Adaptec AVA-2903B PCI SCSI card. v1.1

#macgarden #drivershardwaresupport #1999 #adaptec

@XenoPhage Generally, I'd recommend to look at well-supported HBAs where the drivers are maintained by the manufacturer inside the Linux Kernel...

  • Last time I checked #Adaptec (a brand of Microchip) was still good...
@nulleric well, I just had a quick google search and I found #Adaptec documentation for #ASPI.
So I'm wondering if I could interface that using #OpenWatcom and a simple text UI...
I've never done low level #SCSI programming, but I should have an Adaptec card somewhere and I could rip out my #BlueSCSI out of my mac...
Should be an interesting little project,, but I don't know when I might find some time for that...