At 21:22 -0800 02/04/2003, Kennedy Brandt wrote:
>I don't have any insight into this, but I promise to bring it up if I ever >run into the NICE lead engineer again. I pass him on the freeway (or vice >versa) fairly often, but face to face encounters are infrequent. Thank you. >I do have relevant experience with PC versions of Adaptec cards however -- >the 2940U2W -- and have found that they won't interfere with anything even >if they don't work. They simply don't work. Now, how I was able to >successfully flash two 2940UW's with the Mac firmware and have them work >perfectly is something I still can't really account for. The ver. 4.1 flasher from Adaptec seems to flash the Adaptec 2940UW without modification to the card. I've heard from a few folks who had problems, but quite a number of others for whom it seemed to work trouble free. So it's worth a try if one wishes to convert a PC 2940UW and one does not get jollies from soldering as I do. :-) As far as I know the ver. 4.1 is the only one for which this works. You can attempt it with the ver. 3.0 firmware, e.g., and it will attempt it, and then fail, leaving you with a card that doesn't work on the Mac or the PC until you make some other firmware arrangements. If one has access to a PC a prudent thing to do is to download the PC 2940U2W package from Adaptec because this includes a utility called "Flasher" or maybe "Flash". Adaptec's Flasher works on several of their cards and will let you read out the firmware in the 2940UW and store it in a file on your hard drive or a floppy. So you can read out the PC firmware, store it safely away, and then experiment away. I don't know if it's still available for download. Adaptec's ftp site used to be accessible and it had a copy of everything they'd ever made available for download. They closed that down and one must use the much inferior web page downloads. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
