Adaptec Adaptec Serial ATA HostRAID - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Adaptec Serial ATA HostRAID is a SCSI Adapter device. This Windows driver was developed by Adaptec. PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_3A05 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Install Adaptec Adaptec Serial ATA HostRAID driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Adaptec Adaptec Serial ATA HostRAID driver. The archive contains version 1.5.17722.0 dated 2010-11-23 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by Adaptec.
File size of the driver: 222258 bytes (217.05 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.6 stars by 43058 users.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Installing the Adaptec Adaptec Serial ATA HostRAID driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup 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 follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Adaptec Adaptec Serial ATA HostRAID driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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