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AHA-2842A

High performance Bus Master VL-to-Fast SCSI Host Adapter with SCSISelect Utility. Supports up to two standard floppy drives, 2.88MB floppies are supported. Floppy controller can be disabled if not required.

Note: Only drivers that are not included or embedded within a supported operating system are listed below. To see a complete list of supported operating systems see the Product Specifications

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Bios Updates and Other Downloadable Files

Bios Updates and Other Downloads

IBM OS

IBM OS-2

Microsoft

Microsoft Windows NT

Novell NetWare

Novell NetWare Downloads

Unix

SCO Unix

Hardware Installation: 2840 hang fix (html 68 kb)

Installing Drivers or Software: cd install netware 401 (html 68 kb); cdrom in dos (html 68 kb); unix driver disk conversion (html 69 kb); loading adaptec dsk drivers (html 71 kb); netware 3.12 cd install (html 68 kb)

Product Documentation: Install Guide for the AHA-2840A/2842A (PDF 145 KB)

Use Your Product: scsi<i>select</i> user's guide (html 83 kb); scsi terms explained (html 77 kb); sense codes described (html 96 kb)

Number of devices
	7 SCSI devices

Bus System Interface Type
	32 Bit for VL (VESA Local Bus) based computers

External Connectors
	50-pin high density

Internal Connectors
	50-pin

Data Transfer Rate
	Up to 40 MBytes/sec on the VL-BusUp to 10 MBytes/sec synchronous Fast SCSI data rate

Package Contents
	AHA-2842A adapterAdaptec EZ-SCSI v3.1 (for DOS/Windows)ASW-7700 v2.02Internal SCSI ribbon cable and documentation


Board Dimensions 9.8" L x 0.44" W x 3.75"H Standard VL-Bus compatible form factor Power Consumption +5.0 +/- 0.25 Volts at 2.0 Amps maximum Operating Characteristics 32° to 131° F (0° to 55° C) Storage Characteristics -40° to 167° F (-40° to 75°C)