Adaptec AHA-2940U2B

Ozbornz

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Oct 9, 2002, 3:45:43 PM10/9/02

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I picked up this aha-2940u2b lvd/se and after many months just discovered it
was/is a MAC OEM card. I've been using it my home-grown PC for several
months. :} I learned all this because one of my Seagate disc drives died
(ST136475LW 36GB) and I'm trying to figure out where the problem is...

My questions are:
1) It seemed to work ok before this problem, so should I be concerned about
compatibility?

2) The Apple web site has a fairly new BIOS for it. Am I asking for trouble
by updating the firmware when I'll be installing this back into my Win2K
system?

After saying all that, is it simply the old 'if it ain't broke, don't fix
it' route?

Thanks!

Dave

Folkert Rienstra

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Oct 9, 2002, 6:32:55 PM10/9/02

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"Ozbornz" <ozbornz...@attbi.com> wrote in message news:HH%o9.25965$YR.5...@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net...

> I picked up this aha-2940u2b lvd/se and after many months just discovered it
> was/is a MAC OEM card. I've been using it my home-grown PC for several
> months. :} I learned all this because one of my Seagate disc drives died
> (ST136475LW 36GB) and I'm trying to figure out where the problem is...
>
> My questions are:
> 1) It seemed to work ok before this problem, so should I be concerned about
> compatibility?
>
> 2) The Apple web site has a fairly new BIOS for it.

For a MAC.

> Am I asking for trouble
> by updating the firmware when I'll be installing this back into my Win2K
> system?

No. It still won't use it.

>
> After saying all that, is it simply the old 'if it ain't broke, don't fix
> it' route?

When you don't use it with DOS or want to boot from it there is nothing
you need to do. For Intel you need the Intel Bios and I don't think there
is one for that card. Maybe when a 3.10 bios comes out for the 2940U2W.

>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave
>
>

Ozbornz

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Oct 10, 2002, 7:29:38 AM10/10/02

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Thanks for the response. But I am curious as to why it worked so well for so
many months until a few days ago...weird, huh?

Dave
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B'ichela

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Oct 10, 2002, 3:00:41 PM10/10/02

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In article <HH%o9.25965$YR.5...@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>, Ozbornz wrote:
> My questions are:
> 1) It seemed to work ok before this problem, so should I be concerned about
> compatibility?

I don't think the problem is/was the card. I am using a
Macintosh AHA-2930cu myself under Linux. Of course mine does not have
a Intel working Bootrom. Linux does not use the internal BIOS anyway.

> 2) The Apple web site has a fairly new BIOS for it. Am I asking for trouble
> by updating the firmware when I'll be installing this back into my Win2K
> system?

You should not have a problem. As for the MAC bios updates....
Your bios is MAC oriented so you can consider the card a Lobotimized
card. 680x0 code is not going to be of any use on an INTEL box. If it
is your main HD controller, you will need a floppy to boot up the
system and load the drivers before Windows will work with it. Just
grab the Windows Drivers for the Intel version of the card. If you
want , not really required, you can pull the bios chip. its worthless
to you anyway. Unless you can find someone who will burn you a Intel
version of the rom. (same for my card).

> After saying all that, is it simply the old 'if it ain't broke, don't fix
> it' route?

I would say that is the case here. The drive failure was/is
not related to the card.

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