Adaptec IBM ServeRAID 8i Controller driver download and installation

IBM ServeRAID 8i Controller is a SCSI Adapter hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Adaptec. PCI/VEN_9005&DEV_0285&SUBSYS_02f21014 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Install Adaptec IBM ServeRAID 8i Controller driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Adaptec IBM ServeRAID 8i Controller driver. The archive contains version 7.1.0.30034 released on 2012-11-29 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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Adaptec applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 68798 bytes (67.19 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 5 stars out of 44569 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. How to use DriverMax to install Adaptec IBM ServeRAID 8i Controller driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Adaptec IBM ServeRAID 8i Controller driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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