>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
Is the 2940UW same as the 2940U2W? and is there any way of flashing
the firmware without a PC? running VPC with Win98 (like a dead snail)
perhaps?
Pete in the UK
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