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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Are these SCSI cards supported ?
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 08:11:07 +0100 (MET)
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> > something like Symbios 53C416 and its PnP ID is SLI4161
> > Apparently it does not use DMA, and from the name I thought it was
> > compatible with the driver in ncr5380.c -- unfortunately the probe
> > seems not to recognize it.
> 
> It seems to be a PnP variant of the 53c400.  It might work with the 
> 'nca' driver, but would probably need to be brought up active.  

hmm... i tried to activate the PnP device with my code but it seems nto
to be recognized.

> Performance would be extremely poor.

well it will be driving a scanner (and some of them do not disconnect
during data transfers) so i don't care about performance but i prefer
not having it on the main scsi adapter.

	Cheers
	Luigi