Ultra 10 & Adaptec SCSI???

I've a little Ultra 10 I need to set up temporarily as a demo box (one in a pair) for live replication. This requires I have a whole lot more disk space than is available all on its own though - and to cater for this I've had an Adaptec AHA 2940UW (Single-Ended) card installed.
I've come across docos on sunsolve mentioning the infeasibility of BOOTING from such a device due to the drivers that need loading at boot-up. Fortunately I don't need to boot from here, unfortunately I can't seem to find drivers for the card (and most Adaptec cards) anywhere!!!
Would anyone here perhaps know better than what I do? Any and all help would be highly appreciated!
Thanks.
~Moi

Hi
Yes, I suspect that the Adaptec drivers for the 29160 and 29160N haven't been re-written for 10.4 or 10.5. When I upgraded to Tiger (10.4.11) on my MDD G4 1.25GHz DP, the Retrospect software would not run at all until I upgraded Retrospect to 6.1.230 from 5.x. Then the backups would run for a time, then freeze up. I'd have to ForceQuit Retrospect. I did no upgrades to the drivers for the Adaptec card. Since the backups would run until a new DDS-3 tape was needed (about 12-14Gb written to the first tape in the backup set), I suspect Retrospect would signal , via communication w/the HP DAT tape drive on the SCSI chain, that a new tape was needed, but due to changes in the headers/structures in Darwin under Tiger, the app would fail and freeze up. If I could get a copy of the APD driver source code, and enough time!, I could probably fix it.
I went the route of getting an ATTO card and all is now well again in backupland.
Here is the KB article from EMC/Dantz on the Adaptec and ATTO cards and Tiger.
As for the "N", I think the hardware difference is the number and type of internal and external SCSI adapters. APD29160 has a single 68-pin LVD SCSI adapter externally, while the APD29160N has a 50-pin SCSI adapter. The number of internal SCSI adapters is also different for the two cards.
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> In this neteware 6.5sp5 server, I have above card installed. Bios
recognise
> this card. But when I load adpu32.ham v.3.01.13 6 Aug 2004. system
console
> report a error: INVALID OPTION C04020AA 'SLOT' INVALID SLOT NUMBER.
>
> I have another netware 6.5sp5 server using the identical adaptec scsi
card.
> it does not have problem to recognise this card in slot 1.
>
> The startup file loads the same ADPU320.HAM. The startment in the
> startup.ncf file read as follows:
>
> ADPU320.HAM SLOT=1
>
> The only difference between startup.ncf of these 2 servers is:
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>
>
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Originally posted by valkyrie
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