Try eBay, and do a search for "adaptec 2940". Thats were
I got mine from, and it only set me back $100.00.
Dana
"Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote:
>
> clearly it seems that my problem must be the free old as sin adaptec I
> have.
> any recomendations out there for a solid scsi UW card? rather cheap? not
> likeing the 250$ tag on the 2490UW
>
> Ron
>
> "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote:
> >
> > Another thought on this...
> > In response to an earlier, valid comment that the SCSI adapter may not be
> > bootable: The failure mode doesn't match. His BIOS would have kicked up a
> > fuss that no SCSI boot device found and then proceeded to try booting an IDE
> > device.
> >
> > Also, your drive is bigger than 8GB. Those older Adaptecs needed a flag set
> > in the BIOS for flipping to a different drive translation for anything
> > bigger than 8GB.
> >
> > Matthew Zaleski
