Solved SCSI driver for Win7 pro 64 bits

[miditoy]

Hi,

my old Adaptec 2904 SCSI card is not recognized by Win7 64bits.
Adaptec has drivers for Win7 32bits only, and says "there will be no support for 64 bits drivers for this card" (AIC-7850 based).

Do you know "alternative" drivers (or other solution) that would allow to use the Adaptec 2904 in Win7 pro 64 bits?
I need SCSI for my Nikon diapo scanner and backup magneto-optical drives.

 

[madtownidiot]

If there are no 64bit drivers, you're out of luck.. you can try using the 32 bit driver, some 32 bit drivers might work, but if adaptec refuses to make a 64 bit driver and the 32 bit driver doesn't work, there aren't any alternatives except to buy a 64 bit capable SCSI card. The Adaptec 29160 SCSI card is compatible with 64bit windows 7 and costs about $50..

 

[miditoy]

Hi,

Many thanks for your answer => I need somme more advise:

1) I forgot to mention that for approximatively 6 monthes I still have a dual boot XP-32b+W7-64b: I suppose that there are no problem to use the generic Win XP drivers when booting XP-32b?

2) perhaps more critical: my OLD peripherals are not LVD type and use a 50 pin connector => are you sure that they can be connected to this 26160 card (LVD type and 68 pin connector)?

By the way, you mention a $60 price => I suppose that this is for an used product? Because here in France the 29160 is now difficult to find, and the prices are above 200EUR! (approx $250...)

 

[madtownidiot]

The price for the 29160 card was for a used one, but that's in the US. Also, it does have an internal 50 pin connector, and you can get a 50 pin to 68 pin adapter, but it may be cheaper and less frustrating in the long run to get a new scanner and backup drives

 

[miditoy]

Hi,

you're right in most cases , but not really in my situation:

- the old Agfa Arcus professionnal scanners have some functions and performances that doesn't exist today

- the magneto-optical drives are for long term backups: last week I've made a little testing, and none of my disks had any problem; some of them were written in... 1995!
I'm not sure that hard drives or CD, DVD or BD, would keep datas for such a long time...

I only hope that these peripherals will be definitively out of order only when I don't need them anymore.

 

[ETHE]

Adaptec AVA-2904 Win 7 64b Driver

Try this driver. It works fine for me.

 

[declayton]

ETHE,

I'm truly grateful for your reply and posting of the folder with the 3 necessary files in it that are needed for things to work.

It now looks like I will be able to continue to use an ancient scanner, and not have to buy a new one.

Thanks for your post.

 

[skyrail]

I found a fix, a few month ago, using a vista 64bits driver, which effectively solved the problem to install an old agfa 1236s. But I lost the driver after a crash disk.
The link you suggest point to a 2006 driver, I guess it is the same vista driver.
But anyway, it works fine.
Thank you very much dudes

 

[leboef]

Hey ETHE,

thank you so much for your upload, now i am able to run my old Canoscan FS2710 under Win7/64Bit and Vuescan. Cheers mate!

 

[wetmonkey]

Thanks ETHE,
I looked at so many web sites with negative responses, now I can use my FS2710 scanner with your upload,Thanks again

 

[Shagbark]

Try this driver. It works fine for me.

I don't understand how to install this driver, or any of the drivers on the Adaptec site.

I go to Device Manager, & select my SCSI controller.
I select General -> Update Driver.
I select Browse My Computer.
I select the directory with the unzipped files.
I click Next.
Says, "Windows could not find driver software for your device."

All of these downloads--every last download from Adaptec--contains no drivers. A driver would be a DLL or an EXE. These contain only .cat, .inf, .sys, or .pnf files. No drivers.

 

[joash64]

Thanks ETHE
it seems to work very fine.

 

[lilive]

Thanks a lot for this post ETHE
I will now be able to store sounds in an old akai sampler with a modern PC

 

[northturton]

Thanks ETHE, I've installed the driver successfully.

I've dusted down my old Canoscan FS2710, but cannot get the Canonscan software (from the CDROM to talk to the scanner). If I reboot, there is communication from the PC (Win7 x64) to the scanner as it starts to make whirring noises... so how did you get the scanner to communicate? what software did you use?

regards
Brian

 

[necrodos]

worked for me..I'm so grateful!!!

 

[Rexreason]

Thanks ETHE, I've looked everywhere for this. I'll now be able to use my Emu Esi 4000 sampler with a pc to load samples and create sample discs.

 

[Flerbizky]

\o/


Works with Windows 8.1 as well!

 

[northturton]

and what OCR software are you using? I installed Vuescan and it couldn't see the scanner.

 

[Flerbizky]

and what OCR software are you using? I installed Vuescan and it couldn't see the scanner.

I didn't - I have an old Nikon LS2000 (and somewhere along the way, I lost all the negatives I already had scanned (except for the low res copies)) - And trying to get NS3.1.2 running under W8.1 - Not happening. Not to mention the ASPI Layer.

So since this is a hit and run operation - I bought a box with a Cellery 2.4Ghz with 1Gb of RAM and XP SP3 clean install (for US$ 30). It'll be used for this, then dumped most likely.

Sorry for not being able to help.

 

[FILMGUY]

Adaptec AVA-2903B

Can anyone confirm or deny if this driver for the Adaptec 2904 will work with an Adaptec AVA-2903B - assuming I am also running Windows 7 (x64)?

I am quite desperate to know, for I absolutely need to get a tape drive up and running. Thank you in advance.