Hi, Charlie.
Well, as I found out, the 2930U2 was not a very popular model of the Adaptec
host adapter, apparently. (I got it in the fall of 1999, and it worked in
Win98, but this specific model apparently was so new that its drivers did
not get onto the Win2K CD-ROM, so I had to wait a month or so after February
2000 for Adaptec to produce drivers. So the current situation with a 64-bit
driver gives me sort of a deja vu feeling.) But if you think that either
the specific lines or the generic idea of editing pnpscsi.inf would be
helpful to others, then feel free to share it. After all, I got the idea
here from Gilles Vollant. And my oft-stated philosophy is: In a newsgroup,
we all learn from each other.
But, as Gilles also said, and I quoted, "...this is without official
support." It worked for me,but it might not work for the next user who
tries it, so back up (or rename) pnpscsi.inf first, just in case.
I've looked at planetamd64.com, but haven't yet posted there. I find that
site's color scheme intimidating and hard for me to read, and the
organization of it is hard to follow, but there is a lot of good stuff
there.
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
Microsoft Windows MVP
"Charlie Russel - MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> RC -- this would be a good thing to upload to planetamd64.com for others
> to grab if they need it.
>
> --
> Charlie.
>
> R. C. White wrote:
>> Hi, Gilles.
>>
>> Thanks for that!
>>
>> I edited the x64 version of \windows\inf\pnpscsi.inf to copy these
>> lines from the 32-bit version .inf:
>> %PCI\VEN_9005&DEV_0011.DeviceDesc% = aic78u2_Inst,
>> PCI\VEN_9005&DEV_0011
>> PCI\VEN_9005&DEV_0011&SUBSYS_01819005.DeviceDesc = "Adaptec
>> AHA-2930U2 - Ultra2 SCSI"
>> I added those after the "_0010" version of each line. Then I used
>> the Add Hardware Wizard and guided it to the updated pnpscsi.inf
>> file. And it worked! So far, at least. The volumes on the SCSI
>> drive show up in My Computer and Windows Explorer. If further
>> testing reveals a problem, I'll let you know. As you said, "Of
>> course, this is without official support."
>> RC
>>
>> "Gilles Vollant" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>>
>>> "Kamil Kieca" <> a écrit dans le message de
>>> news: d83tno$9qb$...
>>>> anyone knows where to get it? I have ordinary 2904 Scsi2 card and
>>>> it is the only driver that I don't have to switch to 64 bit windows
>>>
>>> 2904 is a like 2940 without Bios on the board. Both use aic78xx.sys
>>> driver so I suggest you "force" the device manager and select
>>> "Adaptec AHA-2940U/2940UW/2940D PCI SCSI Controller"
>>>
>>> you can also try edit WINDOWS\inf\pnpscsi.inf (with notepad.exe, and
>>> after backup original file)
>>>
>>> under the line
>>> %PCI\VEN_9004&DEV_8178.DeviceDesc% = aic78xx_Inst,
>>> PCI\VEN_9004&DEV_8178 add the two lines :
>>> %PCI\VEN_9004&DEV_5078.DeviceDesc% = aic78xx_Inst,
>>> PCI\VEN_9004&DEV_5078 %PCI\VEN_9004&DEV_5075.DeviceDesc% =
>>> aic78xx_Inst, PCI\VEN_9004&DEV_5075 and under the line
>>> PCI\VEN_9004&DEV_8178.DeviceDesc = "Adaptec AHA-2940U/2940UW/2940D
>>> PCI SCSI Controller"
>>> add the two lines::
>>> PCI\VEN_9004&DEV_5078.DeviceDesc = "Adaptec AIC-7850 PCI SCSI
>>> Controller" PCI\VEN_9004&DEV_5075.DeviceDesc = "Adaptec AIC-7550 PCI
>>> SCSI Controller" Of course, this is without official support.
>>> Tell us if this solves your problem !
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