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AHA-2940W

The Adaptec AHA-2940W PCI-to-Fast SCSI host adapter provides a powerful multi-tasking interface between your computer's PCI bus and SCSI devices (disk drives, CD-ROM drives,scanners, tape backups, removable media drives, etc.).

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 DOS

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft Windows 3.1x

Microsoft Windows 7

Microsoft Windows 95

Microsoft Windows 98

Microsoft Windows Millennium

Microsoft Windows NT

Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Windows Vista

Novell NetWare

Novell NetWare Downloads

Unix

SCO Unix

SCO UnixWare

Hardware Installation: how to install your adaptec pci card (html 74 kb); connecting wide and narrow (html 73 kb)

Installing Drivers or Software: cd install netware 401 (html 69 kb); 7800 netware instructions (html 81 kb); 7800 family manager set 98 contents (html 68 kb); installing 98 driver (html 70 kb); windows 98 issues (html 70 kb); 7800 miniport issues in 95 (html 70 kb); installing windows nt driver (html 82 kb); 7800 supported adapters (html 72 kb); aic7870.dsk options (html 76 kb); 7800 netware contents (html 70 kb); 7800 issues for netware (html 71 kb); 7800 netware notes (html 70 kb); miniport options (html 70 kb); 2940 winnt 3.x (html 70 kb); os/2 driver installation (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); 7800 unix driver instructions (html 75 kb); os/2 driver notes (html 77 kb); 7800 os/2 diskette (html 69 kb); sco unix driver installation (html 75 kb)

Interoperability: 7800 fms support list (html 72 kb)

Product Documentation: Install Guide for the AHA-2940/2940W (PDF 173 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
	Supports up to 15 devices total

Bus System Interface Type
	32-bit PCI local-bus

External Connectors
	68-pin SCSI-3 connector

Internal Connectors
	50-pin shrouded standard SCSI header68-pin shrouded SCSI-3 header

Data Transfer Rate
	20 Mbytes/sec

Package Contents
	AHA-2940W Host AdapterAdaptec EZ-SCSI v3.01 for DOS/WindowsASW-7800 v1.0250 pin internal SCSI ribbon cable68 pin internal wide SCSI ribbon cableDocumentation

Warranty
	5 years

Supported Protocols

SCSI-2 and SCSI-3

Advanced SCSI Features

Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (ASPI) compliant,
Multi-Threaded I/O,
Scatter/Gather,
Tagged Queuing,
Disconnect/Reconnect,
Synchronous and Asynchronous Fast and Wide

Hard Disk Capacity