Adaptec 2906 SCSI PCI Kit with Windows and Mac Support

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Product Details

Product Manual [224kb PDF]

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005111H
• Item model number: 1772900
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 12, 2000

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Adaptec SCSI Card 2906 protects your SCSI peripheral investment by providing the same internal and external connections previously available with built-in Mac SCSI. And it works with Old SCSI manager as well as newer SCSI Manager 4.3 compatible devices for maximum compatibility. It also provides 10Mbyte/sec Fast SCSI performance that is twice as fast as the previously provided built-in Mac SCSI, and 6 times faster that the standard PC parallel port. (In Europe, only available for Macintosh.)

Kit Contents

• Adaptec SCSI card AVA-2906
• 50-pin internal SCSI cable (external cable not included)
• CD-ROM with Mac and Windows drivers and electronic User's Guide
• Installation guide

System RequirementsPC

• Desktop with available PCI expansion slot
• IBM compatible PC-486, Pentium or above
• Microsoft® Windows® XP, 2000 Professional, Me, NT, 98, 95, 3.1, or DOS 6.0 and above

Macintosh

• PCI-based Power Mac running Mac OS 8.5 or later (now including OS X 10.1)
• PCI expansion slot

Supported Operating Systems

• Microsoft MS-DOS 3.x
• Microsoft MS-DOS 4.x
• Microsoft MS-DOS 5.x
• Microsoft MS-DOS 6.x
• Microsoft Windows 3.10
• Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11
• Microsoft Windows NT 3.51
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
• Microsoft Windows 95
• Microsoft Windows 95a
• Microsoft Windows 95b
• Microsoft Windows 95c
• Microsoft Windows 98
• Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
• Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Macintosh OS 8.6
• Macintosh OS 9.0
• Macintosh OS 9.0.2
• Macintosh OS 9.0.3
• Macintosh OS 9.0.4
• Macintosh OS 9.1
• Macintosh OS 9.2.x
• Mac OS X 10.1.x
• Mac OS X 10.2.x
• Mac OS X 10.3.x
• Mac OS X Server 10.1.x
• Mac OS X Server 10.2.x
• Mac OS X Server 10.3.x

Warranty
5-year manufacturing and materials warranty

Product Description

By installing the AVA-2906 in your PC, you can connect up to seven SCSI peripherals to your PC and they will each run up to six times faster than they would if you connected them through your parallel port. Plus, installation is simple. Just remove the case from you desktop PC, slide the AVA-2906 into a PCI expansion slot, and then connect your internal and external SCSI peripherals. The included EZ-SCSI Standard Edition software takes you step-by-step through the installation process and automatically installs peripheral drivers. This card is ideal for connecting SCSI-1, SCSI-2, and Fast SCSI Zip drives, scanners, tape, and CD-ROM drives. Its Fast SCSI-2 interface supports data transfer rates of up to 10MB per second. It has a DB25-pin female external connector and a 50-pin standard male internal connector. Adaptec tests its SCSI cards with hundreds of computer systems and peripherals to ensure the widest possible support.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent SCSI Card!, April 14, 2002

By	C. J. Carter (Sierra Madre, California, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I needed this card to interface my HP ScanJet 6100C flatbed to my Dell 8100 - which, unlike my previous machine, had no ISA slots for the SCSI interface which HP originally supplied. I was expecting a fight, but was pleasantly surprised - installation under a Windows 2000 system was a piece of cake - the card was recognised instantly, no additional configuration required. I downloaded the latest scanner software from HP and everything worked perfectly first time.

Nice one, Adaptec. A great card which did exactly what was advertised - I recommend it unreservedly.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Adaptec Quality in a SCSI card, June 10, 2001

By	Stanward S Oshiro (Honolulu, Hawaii USA) - See all my reviews

First off, I would never trust a SCSI card that is NOT made from Adaptec. Besides the fact of being overrated(at times), their quality and service is superb. Adaptec keeps up with the new high-technology as expected, and their product line will definately fit anyone, from a basic PC user to a quad-processor server.

I purchased this SCSI card to control a SCSI scanner that was purchased before. One internal 50-pin IDC connector, and one DB25 external connector. This SCSI card was made to connect to any device that is Fast SCSI compliant. These Fast SCSI devices have a max speed of up to 10MB/sec. Devices include, CDR/CDRW drives, Zip Drives, hard drives(non-bootable), scanners, etc.

Easy installation onto any computer, I installed this puppy into my Celeron-based PC with no problems at all. Affordable and easy to setup gives this item 5 stars.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than expected, January 20, 2003

By	Cliff Calhoun (Madera, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Adaptec continues their reputation for solid design and performance.

I updated an older Adaptec ISA SCSI card (which never gave me a problem in over 5 years) with this one for a PCI slot, and everything worked perfectly. As usual with Adaptec, I didn't need to load a driver. Win XP detected the card and loaded it automatically. Great product!