Adaptec AHA-2940UW
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just dual boot it with windows 3.1.1?
then dump everything to the SATA drive
btw it do have VISTA 32bit driver http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/downloads/ms/ms_win_vista/productid=aha-2940uw&dn=aha-2940uw.html
so it probably works in W10 32 bit
EDIT
http://ask.adaptec.com/app/answers/...erver-200x,-windows-7-drivers-for-the-adaptec
it said win vista and 7 64bit already have internal driver for it. So probably it just works on W10 too
then dump everything to the SATA drive
btw it do have VISTA 32bit driver http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/downloads/ms/ms_win_vista/productid=aha-2940uw&dn=aha-2940uw.html
so it probably works in W10 32 bit
EDIT
http://ask.adaptec.com/app/answers/...erver-200x,-windows-7-drivers-for-the-adaptec
it said win vista and 7 64bit already have internal driver for it. So probably it just works on W10 too
Nah, the internal driver support is gone for win10. 
(Yellow exclamation mark icon in device manager.)
Was saddened by that, as usually windows seems to support hardware basically forever; some years ago, every time I re-installed the OS I had to gain online functionality for my previous PC rig by plugging in an ancient 100mbit ethernet PCI network card from the 1990s because windows 7 did not have built-in driver support for the ethernet adapter on the mobo... Worked like a charm every time.
That PC also was basically the last generation that supported (native) PCI slots by the way. Good riddance really, heh, but one feels a small tweak of nostalgia losing hardware support because the appropriate interface/slots simply aren't there anymore. There's probably some mobo here or there still offering PCI, but these days it's added via an external PCIe bridge chip instead of built into the chipset...
(Yellow exclamation mark icon in device manager.)Was saddened by that, as usually windows seems to support hardware basically forever; some years ago, every time I re-installed the OS I had to gain online functionality for my previous PC rig by plugging in an ancient 100mbit ethernet PCI network card from the 1990s because windows 7 did not have built-in driver support for the ethernet adapter on the mobo... Worked like a charm every time.
That PC also was basically the last generation that supported (native) PCI slots by the way. Good riddance really, heh, but one feels a small tweak of nostalgia losing hardware support because the appropriate interface/slots simply aren't there anymore. There's probably some mobo here or there still offering PCI, but these days it's added via an external PCIe bridge chip instead of built into the chipset...
Hmm maybe you can install it using Windows 7 driver? But I don't remember where windows store the inf files
Blazkowicz
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Network cards always have widespread driver support, it's important enough,that it works. There is always a DOS driver even - it's small and simple, and there are all sorts of deployments and other tools that use DOS.
Still to run a 3COM board on a Windows 7 32bit PC, I had to download an old driver for Windows 2000 (or XP and 2000)
If you try linux there should be driver support for the old SCSI card. Old stuff tends to be supported forever (but these days still with a combined printer + scanner device, the printer might work but not the scanner). Old stuff that's too rare so no kernel developer/maintainer has access to it and/or where there is very little interest is eventually dropped.
It should be at least possible to do a raw dump of the whole disks.
Else I have the same suggestion as orangpelupa, but do it from DOS maybe.
It's possible to run MS-DOS 7.10 from a USB stick, and that version supports fat32. Although it is likely that you could make a 1000MB fat16 partition and run DOS 6.22 or a crazy old one without problems.
If that's an Amiga file system on your old hard drives there's likely old freeware tools for DOS that allow to read the files.
Still to run a 3COM board on a Windows 7 32bit PC, I had to download an old driver for Windows 2000 (or XP and 2000)
If you try linux there should be driver support for the old SCSI card. Old stuff tends to be supported forever (but these days still with a combined printer + scanner device, the printer might work but not the scanner). Old stuff that's too rare so no kernel developer/maintainer has access to it and/or where there is very little interest is eventually dropped.
It should be at least possible to do a raw dump of the whole disks.
Else I have the same suggestion as orangpelupa, but do it from DOS maybe.
It's possible to run MS-DOS 7.10 from a USB stick, and that version supports fat32. Although it is likely that you could make a 1000MB fat16 partition and run DOS 6.22 or a crazy old one without problems.
If that's an Amiga file system on your old hard drives there's likely old freeware tools for DOS that allow to read the files.
Hmm maybe you can install it using Windows 7 driver? But I don't remember where windows store the inf files
Windows keeps the "factory" Microsoft INFs in C:\Windows\Inf. The ones you choose to install "aftermarket" are renamed to OEM{n}.inf, the rest are directly from Microsoft. You may be able to pull this stunt by pointing at an installed Win7 partition (external drive?) and pulling the files from there.
