Unfortunately I could not determine from Adaptec's site if the 2930 is bootable or not. The SCSI card I have been using is no longer available, and that's the FWB PCI Ultra SCSI JackHammer . As you can see, Hammer Storage was bought up by Bell Microproducts, along with Rorke Data, in the spring of 2000.
Competition is typically a good thing for the consumer.
No drivers needed, Flash BIOS upgradeable. Though I'm a Mac user, this product is designed for multiple platforms. There are firmware updaters available from their site , but documentation is very sparse. As the test data will show, the write performance was strangely distant from the read performance in my PowerCurve. But tests performed with my FWB card do not show this disparity, the reads and writes track closely with each other.