Dead Adaptec 2940UW

[Jakki0]

Can anyone help me? I think I just killed my 2940UW. I was trying to flash the BIOS and my machine kocked up in the middle of it. Had to reboot and now when I try to flash again it says ther is no BIOS found.
Please my CD-ROM (2) and my burner along with my tape drive and 2 HD was attached. BooHoo what am I gonna Do? There are burning to be done and backups to be made.
Can it be revived?
I am going to a show tomorrow and I was going to look at a TEKRAM DC-395UW is this a good replacement.

 

[Lore]

check your email.

 

[Wooster]

So how does it turn out? I am curious because I always flash my SCSI card BIOS and don't want this happen to me. 🙂

 

[cobain]

I killed the bios on my Adaptec 2940 U2W once. From memory I just booted from a floppy disk with the new bios on it and the update program. Then I used some switch/option of the update software, to force it to write the new bios. Worked great ever since.

 

[subman]

Jakki0

Here is an extract from the readme text file which comes with the BIOS upgrade file.



This BIOS update is NOT to be used for updating motherboard embedded
SCSI controllers or OEM adapters. Some OEM adapters may have the letter 'S' (designating a 'Special' BIOS version ) when the BIOS is displayed on the screen, during the systems booting process. Using this utility for OEM adapters, designed-in controller chips,
or other Adaptec adapters, may render those Adapters UNUSABLE.

 

[arthurb1]

Don't flash unless you are having problems with the current BIOS...just avoid the risk, especially for a SCSI controller, I mean what are they going to add? Support for a new CPU or any real new settings? No.