Oh I literally just found this on eBay after posting that and have bought it! I have some PCIe extender cables so I can have an old PCI SCSI card hanging out the back of my PC I hope! 😀

almost all SCSI controllers will not work on 64bit microsoft operating systems at home user level.
As of such, SCSI I would recommend for just about all PCI ISA ones best used on linux or up to windows 7. 32bit that is.
Including your extender idea with it 😀
FYI: yes extenders can be fun with SCSI cards but they can be slow I have used it for an adaptec PCI card it heated up so I must caution.

Oh boo! Well I'll have a bit of fun trying to get an old PCI SCSI card working on Windows 10 64bit anyway!

If they don't work, what else could I use this adapter for...... does the Matrox M3D work in Windows 10!?!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

SteveC wrote on 2021-07-25, 16:15:

Oh boo! Well I'll have a bit of fun trying to get an old PCI SCSI card working on Windows 10 64bit anyway!

If they don't work, what else could I use this adapter for...... does the Matrox M3D work in Windows 10!?!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

well, you can dual boot 32bit 64bit windows 10 on same rego so on 32bit windows 10 try an older o.s. driver for it?
Using an older PCI video card means you'll need a uncertified generic driver that will do graphics, not direct x but you might get opengl. (If it hasn't had an official driver released for vista or 7)
Such an arrangement for PCI GPU is great as a 2nd monitor used to keep an eye on a gaming rigs core temps etc.

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Yes, I have a PCI SCSI adaptor (AHA-2940AU) in my test machine running both Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit. The card is fully functional in 32-bit Windows 7 but not in 64-bit.

PCI is no problem at all under windows7-64 bit... 😉

http://www.dawicontrol.com/html/scsi.php

Adaptec 2940 is alo running.

Did a bit of searching and found a PCIe one that reportedly works with Windows 10 64-bit using the Server 2008 R2 64-bit driver.

LSI LSI20320IE
https://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardware/13 … ows-10-x64.html

There is the Atto ExpressPCI UL5D that also is PCIe and seems to have 64-bit drivers, although it uses very-high density connectors (so you'll need a adapter dongle and all of that crap) and seems to be rather expensive on the used market.

Vynix wrote on 2021-07-26, 02:13:

There is the Atto ExpressPCI UL5D that also is PCIe and seems to have 64-bit drivers, although it uses very-high density connectors (so you'll need a adapter dongle and all of that crap) and seems to be rather expensive on the used market.

The UL5D is expensive because it also runs on a last generation Powermac G5 PCIE tower (if you need an external SCSI RAID setup for video editing).

There are 64 bit drivers for some Adaptec 39160 PCI-X if your have a normal PCI slot (they will work of course you are stuck at PCI bus max speed).

zapbuzz wrote on 2021-07-25, 16:08:

almost all SCSI controllers will not work on 64bit operating systems at home user level.

Could you elaborate on this one?

I have an Adaptec 2940U2W that works fine in my 64b Ubuntu system and does not require root (admin) right to do so.

dionb wrote on 2021-07-26, 06:14:

zapbuzz wrote on 2021-07-25, 16:08:

almost all SCSI controllers will not work on 64bit operating systems at home user level.

Could you elaborate on this one?

I have an Adaptec 2940U2W that works fine in my 64b Ubuntu system and does not require root (admin) right to do so.

The topic starter wanted advice I assumed was windows. A common 64bit O.S.
I am a white box user.
I would assume a Linux user would comment about Linux eventually.
And thankyou for your experience in Adaptec on Linux; I'm sure a linux user would be grateful

The OP did not specify any 64-bit OS.

windows 10 was mentioned anything else?
Well I appologise 😀

zapbuzz wrote on 2021-07-26, 07:41:

windows 10 was mentioned anything else?
Well I appologise 😀

Not in the OP. What is your issue with Linux anyway?

No I didn't specify 64 bit, but yeah I do mean 64 bit 😀

Thanks for the input everyone!

SteveC wrote:

I could just buy a USB Zip drive I guess but that's being defeatist

And that, my friend, is the CORRECT answer.

Its super convenient as well. And I think others mentioned windows compatibility, and I wanted to chime in and say, I use 7 & 10 64bit and have zero issue with the USB version. I tried the IDE version a while ago and it was nothing but trouble. I can only guess scsi will be just as obtuse.

zapbuzz wrote on 2021-07-26, 07:41:

windows 10 was mentioned anything else?
Well I appologise 😀

Yes. Be wary of drop bears...😉

luckybob wrote on 2021-07-26, 18:30:

SteveC wrote:

I could just buy a USB Zip drive I guess but that's being defeatist

And that, my friend, is the CORRECT answer.

Its super convenient as well. And I think others mentioned windows compatibility, and I wanted to chime in and say, I use 7 & 10 64bit and have zero issue with the USB version. I tried the IDE version a while ago and it was nothing but trouble. I can only guess scsi will be just as obtuse.

FINE! I'll buy one "untested" probably means broken but as the Zip250 isn't that popular I'll give them the benefit of doubt 😀