Adaptec 2906 Vista 64 Bit Driver Download

Aug 31, 2009 Free downloads & security. Cannot find an Adaptec AVA-2904 SCSI Controller driver for Windows 7 x64. If Adaptec has 64-bit drivers for Vista.

I recently purchased a Minolta Scan Dual film scanner to scan some negatives and slides that I have had for years. I have read that some people are claiming that they were able to install the scanner on windows 7 64 bit, but when I installed the card and connected the cable to the scanner, it does not work or show up in the device manager at all. I downloaded a copy of vuescan, and it says no scanner is connected. It has been a very long time since I used one of these so I just can't remember everything. I have an adaptec 2906 scsi, and the scanner cable. What I did was inserted the card into the MB, and the cable to the scsi card and scanner. I was hoping that it would show up in the device manager with a question mark and that windows would be able to find a generic driver, but no such luck.

If needs be, I could always buy a cheap computer with windows XP, but it would be nice if I could get it to work on Windows 7. I hope that what I wrote is understandable, and any help would be appreciated. Yes Keith, I know, but I just purchased a Dell OptiPlex i3 computer just so that I could use it for the scanner with Windows XP. Why, I don't know, as I could easily have used my Epson flatbed scanner to do the scans that I want. I shoot digital now and have a Nikon D7100 as well as a Olympus EM-5, but I have a ton of negatives and slides that I need to digitize. I was able to buy this scanner dirt cheap, and since in the past I had used them, I thought that it would be fun to do so again. Thanks anyway and I will let you know the outcome. C Roske wrote: As Keith said, If you can't get it to work in 7 then you might try XP in a virtual machine.

I have almost the same situation and installed virtual machine/XP mode in Windows 7 XP mode installs a copy of XP without a disk or serial number needed. Another choice would be XP in VMware (OS installed from your own disk) That idea is good for running applications that will not run in 64 bit Win 7. For example, applications that are 16 bit or use 16 bit installers; or are reliant on libraries that are no longer present in newer Windows releases).

The problem comes in with drivers, as Virtual Machines like VirtualBox or VMWare Player are still using the host's drivers to interface with physical devices; even though there may be an interpretation layer within that VM environment designed to translate calls between drivers installed in the guest OS, and the drivers that talk to the physical hardware via the host OS drivers. VMWare Player and VirtualBox (or Microsoft Virtual PC) are *NOT* 'bare metal' hypervisors, meaning that they are still reliant on the host operating system's drivers to interface with physical hardware. There are some 'bare metal' solutions (able to directly interface between the guest OS and the physical hardware) that you might be able to get working. But, their setup is gong to be far more complex. In rare cases, you might be able to use some USB based drivers from the guest OS in a virtual machine using something like VMWare Player or VirtualBox.. But, for the most part, you're going to be out of luck trying to use the guest drivers with most physical hardware with those types of solutions (as with the SCSI controller card the OP wants to use). IMO, the best solution for the OP would be the solution that Russel Evans linked to in his earlier post to this thread here: IOW, rather than 'jumping through hoops' trying to use the scanner with a separate installation of XP on another machine (or trying to run XP in a virtual machine, where it's *EXTREMELY* unlikely that the guest installed drivers would work with that SCSI card), simply follow the steps outlined in the article that Russell linked to in order to have drivers supporting the OP's Adaptec SCSI driver working in newer Windows releases.

I have owned this now ancient scanner and Adaptec SCSI card. If you must use it save yourself aggravation and find a machine that runs XP: problem solved. Do not install XP into a modern Win 7 or Win 8 machine. The boot systems are different but easily made compatible. The problem is that more likely than not the newer machines use drives running via AHCI at the BIOS/UEFI level and that is not compatible with XP.

You also cannot run XP in a virtual box and expect the Adaptec card to work as the host OS has to have drivers for the peripherals to work in the virtual box. In truth current high end flat bed scanners will do a better job than the ancient Minolta and do it much faster. I only have first hand knowledge and years of experience with this exact gear so pay no attention to my advice.

Nebulla wrote: Makes sense and I might just go that route in the end. Did Russell say that these scsi were supported in windows vista? I also have a copy of that operating system as well as windows xp. Which would be the better Operating system to use if not windows 7?

The solution he posted a link to is actually using some driver files designed to work with Vista. If Windows 7 is your desktop's primary OS, I'd just follow the instructions on that page to get the drivers working in 64 Bit Win 7. Those instructions look to be very 'straight forward', and I doubt it would take more than 5 or 10 minutes to get drivers installed in Win 7 to work with your Adaptec SCSI card. So, rather than using a compromised setup (trying to use XP on a separate machine, trying to use a machine with Vista on it instead), I'd just follow the instructions on the page that Russell linked to.

IOW, I think you're making this harder than it needs to be (trying to use operating systems other than the one you're using on your primary PC to interact with your scsci card and attached devices to it); when there appears to be a solution that should be easy to implement in Win 7. Bmoag wrote: I have owned this now ancient scanner and Adaptec SCSI card. If you must use it save yourself aggravation and find a machine that runs XP: problem solved. Do not install XP into a modern Win 7 or Win 8 machine.

The boot systems are different but easily made compatible. The problem is that more likely than not the newer machines use drives running via AHCI at the BIOS/UEFI level and that is not compatible with XP. You also cannot run XP in a virtual box and expect the Adaptec card to work as the host OS has to have drivers for the peripherals to work in the virtual box.

In truth current high end flat bed scanners will do a better job than the ancient Minolta and do it much faster. I only have first hand knowledge and years of experience with this exact gear so pay no attention to my advice. Thank you bmoag The truth is that although I am no louse with computers, I am also no expert either, but I am sure that if I put my mind to it, I could easily do this as suggested by the link that Russell posted, but as stated so many times in this post, when I purchased the scanner, I was quite aware that I would have some complications with drivers so I purchased a cheap Dell computer which I plan to install windows Xp on for this purpose only. The Dell is currently running windows 7 so are you saying that I might also have a problem after putting windows XP on this machine?

And I agree with you about the flatbed scanner. I have an Epson V500 which would have been sufficient, but since I already have the Minolta scanner, I might as well get it to work. Nebulla wrote: I agree and I just replied to Keith with my reason for not going virtual. Thanks I use the Minolta Scan Speed, which uses a similar SCSI interface to your Scan Dual. My old SCSI interface card was an ISA card which did not fit the PCI expansion slots on my motherboard. I went to the Adaptec site and searched for the most basic card that was supported under Windows 7 64-bit.

I found the Adaptec 19160 card and picked a used one off eBay for about $20 and the Win7 driver is a free download from the Adaptec site. This installs and runs fine under Win7 64-bit, although there is a warning message on boot up, which Adaptec tell me is because the old Minolta scanner does not 'handshake' with the SCSI system interface. The old Minolta scanner software will not run under Windows 7, so I am using VueScan 9, which IMHO is far better than the original Minolta software. The only thing that is slightly annoying is that the scanner needs to be powered when the system boots, otherwise it is not recognised, but I believe this is true of all SCSI devices.

Vuescan on Windows 7/8 64 bit: Driver for SCSI scanners with Adaptec AHA-2940 etc. Controllers Owners of SCSI scanners often face problems after having migrated their systems to Windows 7 64 bit or Windows 8 64 bit. While Vuescan does support most SCSI scanners on these operating systems a suitable driver to keep using the required SCSI host adapter is often missing. Neither Microsoft nor Adaptec officially offer such a driver for download. Only more modern Ultra160 SCSI controllers received official drivers for 64 bit Windows. Cables to adapt scanners to such controllers tend to be expensive and even after successfully connecting a scanner it often would not work properly in our tests. The missing driver that allows you to keep using the proven and nowadays cheap to obtain SCSI host adapters like the various versions of Adaptec's AHA-2940 does exist for both Windows 7 64 bit and Windows 8 64 bit though.

In the following we will show you how to get your scanner operational again while keeping its original SCSI controller card. Please note that you are using this information at your own risk and that we can't provide support for this.

Of course that doesn't mean we'll not answer questions or are not interested in any problems you might encounter. Besides allowing you to use Vuescan the same method might also allow you to use the manufacturer's original scanner software. That should at least have been compatible with Windows Vista though because otherwise chances are that it won't even be possible install it anymore. Vuescan does include the required drivers for the scanner itself so that its recognition by the system should work without problems.

The screen shots for the following instructions were taken on a German copy of Windows 7. Because things will look extremely similar on an English OS we did not take them twice. On Device Manager's device list look for the 'Other Devices' category where you will find your SCSI host adapter’. The corresponding entry will be named 'SCSI Controller' or something like that. And select 'Update Driver Software'. Next select and specify.

A warning message will be displayed which you will need to disregard -. Afterwards your SCSI host adapter should be, e. 'Adaptec AHA-2940/2940W (AIC-7871 PCI SCSI Controller Emulated)'.

If a scanner is connected it should now show up in the imaging devices category and a corresponding driver that was installed with Vuescan should get installed automatically. If the driver does not get installed you can always install it manually from your Vuescan folder. Did this page help you? Please vote +1 for it on Google Plus. In the past we have been reluctant regarding social networks.

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First get the Windows 8 menu to show and. On the settings screen. There choose the General category from the 'PC settings' list and scroll down all the way to the end of that category to reach the 'Advanced startup' entry as shown. There press the 'Restart now' button.

Your system will restart and after a while. On it, then and finally where you'll find yet another Restart button.

Press it to and on it press either 7 or F7 on your keyboard to boot Windows 8 with its driver signature enforcement disabled. After booting Windows 8 that way choose Search from the Windows 8 menu,. Now install your driver as detailed above for Windows 7. With this information you should be able to get the SCSI host adapters AHA-2930CU, AHA-2940/2940W, AHA-2940AU, AHA-2940U/UW, AHA-2940U/UW/D, AHA-3940U/UW/UWD, AHA-3940U/UW, AHA-2944UW, AHA-3944U/UWD, AHA-4944UW, AHA-2940UW Pro, AHA-2930UW, AHA-294x, AHA-3985, AHA-2944/2944W, AHA-3944/3944W, AHA-4944W/UW, AHA-3940/3940W and AVA-2902, AVA-2904, AVA-2906, AVA-2930 operational on Windows 7 64 bit and Windows 8 64 bit even though Microsoft and Adaptec have officially decided not to support them anymore. Plug-ins © 2004 - 2017 David Dunthorn,; deutsche Fassung © 2007 - Christoph Oldendorf • •.