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July 11th, 2016 15:00
A wide SCSI PCI card to replace Adaptec 29160
Still migrating from my old T3600 to this new T3620. I'd like to connect to an old SCSI external drive, an old Micronet RAID that I have been using on my old T3600. I pulled the Adaptec 29160 from the old machine, got it to fit in the new PC, carefully attached the SCSI cable, powered up the Micronet, then the new PC, but the Micronet storage doesn't show up under "this PC". I have brought this SCSI drive along through several PC replacements, but don't remember how I set it up on the T3600.
Device manager shows a new SCSI Controller at PCI bus 3, device 2, but reports "The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28) There are no compatible drivers for this device. To find a driver for this device, click Update Driver." I had found a driver at http://adaptec.com/en-us/speed/scsi/windows/u160_w7_ws08r2_x86_drv_b7_5_645_100_exe.php that says it is for Windows 7 and 2008R2, so running it in Win 10 might be a problem. Yet I was running this SCSI card and RAID on the T3600 that started out Win 8 but had the automatic update to Win 10 applied.
Today, the new system would not boot with or without the 29160 card. I had to restore windows, then all my apps. Don't know if this card was the problem, but I want to avoid crashing windows again. Is there a newer wide SCSI PCI card out there that will work with Windows 10 and this T3620?
MajorGeek
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July 14th, 2016 12:00
My old Micronet drives www.cnet.com/.../ have been extremely reliable. But if there are no SCSI cards that will work with Win 10, and replacement ATA disk drives are getting hard to find, it looks like it's time to retire them. USB 3.0 speeds are now better than wide SCSI now, I think.
tapelibraryfixer
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July 15th, 2016 05:00
do you have to use a 29160, can you not use a 29320lpe ?
tapelibraryfixer
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July 18th, 2016 01:00
no officially there isnt but server 2012 driver should be fine or 2008.
i have quite a few systems running win10 with various scsi, fibre and sas cards and they work no problem
MajorGeek
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July 18th, 2016 10:00
I got this curiously non definite reply from Microsemi:
" Thank you for your message.
Unfortunately no. The driver for windows 7 should work. Make sure you are loading the driver to the correct device.
http://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/scsi/windows/u160_w7_ws08r2_x64_drv_b7_5_645_100_exe.php
Thank you for using ASK Us."
So the windows 7 driver should work but it might not.
I'm not messing with it any more. Last time I tried the card in my system, I had to reinstall windows 10, myapp, and restore my data.
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July 26th, 2016 10:00
LSI doesn't list a Windows 10 driver either, but you could try an LSI 20320IE. This is a PCIe SCSI card with 1 external and 1 internal port.
Maybe Windows will have a native driver for it, or Windows can find one via Windowsupdate.
They were sold as Dell part number NU947 and there are several options on Ebay for them.