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Old October 17th 17, 10:08 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Looking for Windows 10 driver for AVA-2906 PCI SCSI card

For my internal 4 mm DAT tape drive.
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Old October 17th 17, 10:55 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Looking for Windows 10 driver for AVA-2906 PCI SCSI card

Lucifer Morningstar wrote:

For my internal 4 mm DAT tape drive.


That's a pretty old Adaptec daughtercard. I think I had one about 15
years ago. From the copyright datestamp in the online manual, it has
2001. Yep, ~15 years ago was a good guess.

https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/...2900/ava-2906/

Obviously that product was discontinued a l-o-n-g time ago. The best
you can do is try the Vista driver to see if it happens to work under
Windows 10. However, bitwidth for drivers *MUST* match the bitwidth of
the OS. You did not say if you are using Windows 10 32- or 64-bit. If
you need compatibility with ancient hardware, you need to use the 32-bit
version of Windows. If you need ancient hardware to continue
functioning, you need an ancient OS. Part of the migration decision is
determining what hardware support you will lose, or sticking with the
old OS to keep the hardware.
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Old October 18th 17, 08:41 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Lucifer Morningstar[_2_]
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Default Looking for Windows 10 driver for AVA-2906 PCI SCSI card

On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 04:55:42 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Lucifer Morningstar wrote:

For my internal 4 mm DAT tape drive.


That's a pretty old Adaptec daughtercard. I think I had one about 15
years ago. From the copyright datestamp in the online manual, it has
2001. Yep, ~15 years ago was a good guess.

https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/...2900/ava-2906/

Obviously that product was discontinued a l-o-n-g time ago. The best
you can do is try the Vista driver to see if it happens to work under
Windows 10. However, bitwidth for drivers *MUST* match the bitwidth of
the OS. You did not say if you are using Windows 10 32- or 64-bit. If
you need compatibility with ancient hardware, you need to use the 32-bit
version of Windows. If you need ancient hardware to continue
functioning, you need an ancient OS. Part of the migration decision is
determining what hardware support you will lose, or sticking with the
old OS to keep the hardware.


You are totally correct. The Adaptec website says there never will
be a 64 bit driver and that I must therefore use a 32 bit OS.
I was using it with 32 bit XP.
I do have an external USB DAT tape drive.
I wonder if that will work with Windows 10 Pro 64 bit.
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Old October 18th 17, 09:57 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Looking for Windows 10 driver for AVA-2906 PCI SCSI card

Lucifer Morningstar wrote:

On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 04:55:42 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Lucifer Morningstar wrote:

For my internal 4 mm DAT tape drive.


That's a pretty old Adaptec daughtercard. I think I had one about 15
years ago. From the copyright datestamp in the online manual, it has
2001. Yep, ~15 years ago was a good guess.

https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/...2900/ava-2906/

Obviously that product was discontinued a l-o-n-g time ago. The best
you can do is try the Vista driver to see if it happens to work under
Windows 10. However, bitwidth for drivers *MUST* match the bitwidth of
the OS. You did not say if you are using Windows 10 32- or 64-bit. If
you need compatibility with ancient hardware, you need to use the 32-bit
version of Windows. If you need ancient hardware to continue
functioning, you need an ancient OS. Part of the migration decision is
determining what hardware support you will lose, or sticking with the
old OS to keep the hardware.


You are totally correct. The Adaptec website says there never will
be a 64 bit driver and that I must therefore use a 32 bit OS.
I was using it with 32 bit XP.
I do have an external USB DAT tape drive.
I wonder if that will work with Windows 10 Pro 64 bit.


Or use a virtual machine running a 32-bit version of Windows (and older
than Windows 10) to install the 32-bit driver in that OS to access the
old DAT hardware. You'll need an unfettered and legitimate license to
whatever Windows you install in the VM. Something old, like Windows XP,
might already have the Adaptec 2906 drivers embedded (included) so you
don't have to go search for one or try to install a driver into a VM.
Been too long since I last used a SCSI device to remember if any version
of Windows had embedded drivers for that interface protocol.

 




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