Vista - Adaptec SCSI in Windows Vista

Vista beta 2 does not support my aha-2940U2W. I found nothing at www.adaptec.com.

Anyone know what Adaptec PCI SCSI adapters will be supported?

FWIW I install Vista 32-bit on one of my systems that used a 29160 connected
to a Maxtor 36gig Ultra 320 drive with no problems at all.


"Eric Gisin" <ericgisin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Vista beta 2 does not support my aha-2940U2W. I found nothing at
> www.adaptec.com.
>
> Anyone know what Adaptec PCI SCSI adapters will be supported?
>
>

"Eric Gisin" <ericgisin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Vista beta 2 does not support my aha-2940U2W. I found nothing at
> www.adaptec.com.
>
> Anyone know what Adaptec PCI SCSI adapters will be supported?
>

It appears that a whole range of perfectly working hardware will no longer
be supported in Vista. A lot of somewhat older SCSI controllers including
Adaptec's simply will not work anymore when Vista arrives. I've filed bug
reports and they get closed as 'by design', so appearently MS and/or the
hardware manufacturers want to force us to newer stuff. Time to pull out
Ubuntu...

Rob

In article <09dtg.3276$YI3.1813@amstwist00>, Rob Turk
<_wipe_me_r.turk@chello.nl> writes

>It appears that a whole range of perfectly working hardware will no longer
>be supported in Vista. A lot of somewhat older SCSI controllers including
>Adaptec's simply will not work anymore when Vista arrives.

Can't you install the related WinXP drivers in Vista?

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"Mike Tomlinson" <mike@NOSPAM.jasper.org.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <09dtg.3276$YI3.1813@amstwist00>, Rob Turk
> <_wipe_me_r.turk@chello.nl> writes
>
>>It appears that a whole range of perfectly working hardware will no longer
>>be supported in Vista. A lot of somewhat older SCSI controllers including
>>Adaptec's simply will not work anymore when Vista arrives.
>
> Can't you install the related WinXP drivers in Vista?
>
> --

On 32-bit, maybe. On 64-bit definitely not.

Rob

Nobody is forcing anybody to migrate to Windows Vista. Free will and all.
Stay with what works.

"Rob Turk" <_wipe_me_r.turk@chello.nl> wrote in message
news:09dtg.3276$YI3.1813@amstwist00...
> "Eric Gisin" <ericgisin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> It appears that a whole range of perfectly working hardware will no longer
> be supported in Vista. A lot of somewhat older SCSI controllers including
> Adaptec's simply will not work anymore when Vista arrives. I've filed bug
> reports and they get closed as 'by design', so appearently MS and/or the
> hardware manufacturers want to force us to newer stuff. Time to pull out
> Ubuntu...
>
> Rob
>
>

"Rob Turk" <_wipe_me_r.turk@chello.nl> wrote in message news:RWktg.3287$YI3.2414@amstwist00
> "Mike Tomlinson" <mike@NOSPAM.jasper.org.uk> wrote in message news:wbPPiwCgXdtEFw1t@jasper.org.uk...
> > In article 09dtg.3276$YI3.1813@amstwist00>, Rob Turk <_wipe_me_r.turk@chello.nl> writes
> >
> > > It appears that a whole range of perfectly working hardware will no longer
> > > be supported in Vista. A lot of somewhat older SCSI controllers including
> > > Adaptec's simply will not work anymore when Vista arrives.
> >
> > Can't you install the related WinXP drivers in Vista?
> >

> On 32-bit, maybe. On 64-bit definitely not.

If the 64-bit drivers 'definetely' aren't compatible, then why would the
32-bit ones be.

>
> Rob

"Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote in message
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> "Rob Turk" <_wipe_me_r.turk@chello.nl> wrote in message
> news:RWktg.3287$YI3.2414@amstwist00
>> "Mike Tomlinson" <mike@NOSPAM.jasper.org.uk> wrote in message
>> news:wbPPiwCgXdtEFw1t@jasper.org.uk...
>> > In article 09dtg.3276$YI3.1813@amstwist00>, Rob Turk
>> > <_wipe_me_r.turk@chello.nl> writes
>> >
>> > > It appears that a whole range of perfectly working hardware will no
>> > > longer
>> > > be supported in Vista. A lot of somewhat older SCSI controllers
>> > > including
>> > > Adaptec's simply will not work anymore when Vista arrives.
>> >
>> > Can't you install the related WinXP drivers in Vista?
>> >
>
>> On 32-bit, maybe. On 64-bit definitely not.
>
> If the 64-bit drivers 'definetely' aren't compatible, then why would the
> 32-bit ones be.

Because on Vista 32-bit you can still install unsigned and/or older (WinXP)
drivers, where the 64-bit version insists on Vista approved drivers that
must be digitally signed with a Verisign certificate. Even Win2003 64-bit
drivers, or drivers signed by a different signing authority than Verisign
are rejected by Vista 64-bit.

Rob

I have a Dell Precision 670 that has an onboard Adaptec HostRaid Adapter.
Don't know the actual model number but the XP 64 bit drivers work just fine.
I loaded them at the start of the installation process.

"Mark D. VandenBeg" <mvan103@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Nobody is forcing anybody to migrate to Windows Vista. Free will and all.
> Stay with what works.
>
> "Rob Turk" <_wipe_me_r.turk@chello.nl> wrote in message
> news:09dtg.3276$YI3.1813@amstwist00...
>> "Eric Gisin" <ericgisin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> It appears that a whole range of perfectly working hardware will no
>> longer be supported in Vista. A lot of somewhat older SCSI controllers
>> including Adaptec's simply will not work anymore when Vista arrives. I've
>> filed bug reports and they get closed as 'by design', so appearently MS
>> and/or the hardware manufacturers want to force us to newer stuff. Time
>> to pull out Ubuntu...
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>
>

Mark,

If I understand you correctly, you said you were able to use Windows XP 64bit SCSI drivers to inside of Vista 64bit OS by loading the driver before installation, correct? If so, what do you mean by loading the driver before installation? My understanding is that Vista does not have the F6 function to load SCSI drivers anymore. So besides using the "Load Driver" by browsing to a CD/Floppy/USB, what/how do I load it? I've used the XP Pro 64bit driver and Vista 64bit is unable to see the SCSI drivers though.