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First post, by vetz

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I've noticed that almost all products on Microsemi website (beside those listed here) now have broken links. Since the older products and EOL products also is gone on the main support page it could be a sign of them removing downloads.

Currently it still works if you change .htm to .php when you encounter an 404 error. For instance
https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/scs … aha154x_exe.htm gives 404, but
https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/scs … aha154x_exe.php works

I noticed on the Wayback machine that many of the downloads are not archived. That goes for the html files and the files itself, for instance the AHA-15x0B EISA config file https://download.adaptec.com/scsi/general/adp0100.cfg

Many of the downloads are probably available from other sources, but none is complete. It would be quite the hassle if this all went away.

Do anyone have the capability to scrape the html and downloads?

- EOL products page seems still to be up: https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/_eol/index.php
- List of other products:
https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/scsi/
https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/raid/

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Reply 1 of 18, by Deksor

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I think it's possible to make a script that would recover everything 🤔
However it won't be very trivial to make ...

See how the first page you listed mention the exe file ? https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/scs … aha154x_exe.php
Here's the download link for that file https://download.adaptec.com/scsi/os-2/aha154x.exe

Hopefully they're all laid out like this.

Something that could be tried is :
- vacuum the entire website
- when encountering a page that ends by _exe.htm, rewrite the url to _exe.php
- then run a script that will look at each pages and when finding the same _exe pages, download the exe from https://download.adaptec.com/[first two folders]/[name].exe and edit the "download" button to just give you the file

and then zip everything and put it on ia.
Main issue is that idk how to rewrite an url with wget, I'm not even sure that is possible ... Other option would to make a homebrew crawler, but it could be very tedious

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Reply 2 of 18, by vetz

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I noticed the same with the file/folder structure. I was playing around with the thought of making my own Python script for this, but I'd have to start from scratch. If there are no pre-built tools for this I guess that is the remaining option?

There is also the documentation, but those links do not seem broken.

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Reply 3 of 18, by vetz

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So I spent the last evening writing a custom Python script for this job. Currently scraping. I see there are some 404 html files on the site atm. Will have a log file of those and then probably have to use the WayBack machine to capture the filenames which is still available on download.adaptec.com. According to the wayback machine, the links have been broken since 2008ish.

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Reply 4 of 18, by vetz

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So all files on download.adaptec.com gives a 404. I do not think its intended by Microsemi as their current products are also affected.

In the meantime, I can provide files if you post what you need.

I hope to setup an archive of this soon.

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Reply 5 of 18, by chmv

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vetz wrote on 2025-02-16, 09:41:

So all files on download.adaptec.com gives a 404. I do not think its intended by Microsemi as their current products are also affected.

In the meantime, I can provide files if you post what you need.

I hope to setup an archive of this soon.

Could I ask you for the files from the Documentation page https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/r … id/asr-81605zq/

https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/readme/adap … arc_12_2020.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/readme/adap … _3_04_23699.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/readme/adap … dme_12_2023.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/quick_start … _qsg_7_2014.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides … _iug_4_2016.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides … users_guide.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides … v3_02_23600.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides … ide_10_2017.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides … users_guide.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides … iug_12_2020.pdf

and
Adaptec ARCCONF Command Line Utility v3.07.23980
maxView Storage Manager v3.07.23980 for VMware

https://download.adaptec.com/raid/storage_man … v3_07_23980.zip
https://download.adaptec.com/raid/storage_man … v3_07_23980.zip

Thank you!

Reply 6 of 18, by backdash

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vetz wrote on 2025-02-16, 09:41:

So all files on download.adaptec.com gives a 404. I do not think its intended by Microsemi as their current products are also affected.

In the meantime, I can provide files if you post what you need.

I hope to setup an archive of this soon.

Hi, and could i also ask you for these three files? :

https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/rai … 7_23980_zip.php
https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/rai … _b33556_zip.php
https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/rai … 7_23980_zip.php

most important would be the USB boot image.

Reply 7 of 18, by vetz

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backdash wrote on 2025-02-21, 22:22:
Hi, and could i also ask you for these three files? : […]
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vetz wrote on 2025-02-16, 09:41:

So all files on download.adaptec.com gives a 404. I do not think its intended by Microsemi as their current products are also affected.

In the meantime, I can provide files if you post what you need.

I hope to setup an archive of this soon.

Hi, and could i also ask you for these three files? :

https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/rai … 7_23980_zip.php
https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/rai … _b33556_zip.php
https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/rai … 7_23980_zip.php

most important would be the USB boot image.

See
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ay9a2swx8mext/Adaptec

8405_fw_b33556_zip unfortunately missing. The archive was not fully complete on the modern products.

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Reply 8 of 18, by vetz

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chmv wrote on 2025-02-21, 19:25:
Could I ask you for the files from the Documentation page https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/r … id/asr-81605zq/ […]
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vetz wrote on 2025-02-16, 09:41:

So all files on download.adaptec.com gives a 404. I do not think its intended by Microsemi as their current products are also affected.

In the meantime, I can provide files if you post what you need.

I hope to setup an archive of this soon.

Could I ask you for the files from the Documentation page https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/r … id/asr-81605zq/

https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/readme/adap … arc_12_2020.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/readme/adap … _3_04_23699.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/readme/adap … dme_12_2023.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/quick_start … _qsg_7_2014.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides … _iug_4_2016.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides … users_guide.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides … v3_02_23600.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides … ide_10_2017.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides … users_guide.pdf
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides … iug_12_2020.pdf

and
Adaptec ARCCONF Command Line Utility v3.07.23980
maxView Storage Manager v3.07.23980 for VMware

https://download.adaptec.com/raid/storage_man … v3_07_23980.zip
https://download.adaptec.com/raid/storage_man … v3_07_23980.zip

Thank you!

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ay9a2swx8mext/Adaptec

Unfortunately I don't have any of the PDFs as the archive is incomplete on modern products, but all the PDFs are available on archive.org if you type in the download URL.

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Reply 9 of 18, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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vetz wrote on 2025-02-22, 07:39:
See https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ay9a2swx8mext/Adaptec […]
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backdash wrote on 2025-02-21, 22:22:
Hi, and could i also ask you for these three files? : […]
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vetz wrote on 2025-02-16, 09:41:

So all files on download.adaptec.com gives a 404. I do not think its intended by Microsemi as their current products are also affected.

In the meantime, I can provide files if you post what you need.

I hope to setup an archive of this soon.

Hi, and could i also ask you for these three files? :

https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/rai … 7_23980_zip.php
https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/rai … _b33556_zip.php
https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/rai … 7_23980_zip.php

most important would be the USB boot image.

See
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ay9a2swx8mext/Adaptec

8405_fw_b33556_zip unfortunately missing. The archive was not fully complete on the modern products.

The missing file...

The attachment 8405_fw_b33556.zip is no longer available

Reply 10 of 18, by backdash

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Great, thank you @vetz & @PC Hoarder Patrol.

Reply 11 of 18, by vetz

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Currently Microsemi have their current products fixed and reporting that the "favorite" products might have issues. No indication that EOL products will be restored.

Since I didn't archive all products properly under the RAID tab https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/raid/ I'm afraid some files have been lost. I'll go through and see what is missing.

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Reply 12 of 18, by voodoo5

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i wrote them a message asking if it is intended to restrore the files / links.
Has anybody saved all files ?
looking for driver / Bios / Manual for
1200A IDE
2400A IDE
2420sa SATA2
2820sa SATA2

Reply 13 of 18, by Horun

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voodoo5 for those, Most of the install guides can be found here if you know the name: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://download. … llation_guides/*
most of the User guides can be found here if you know the name: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://download … fs/user_guides/*
make sure to include that last * in your browser...

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Reply 18 of 18, by voodoo5

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yes they answered me. i was told the location of downloads changed to another server. But they dont reupload driver etc for old products.....

thanks Horun. I will check that.

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