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> In any case, my guess is that when Gerard's driver goes into the tree, we
> will not be getting rid of the current ncr driver.  We'll either make it
> optional, and make the current NCR driver the default, or adjust the probe
> routines so that when the sym driver is present, the ncr driver will only
> attach to the 810, 815 and 825.

Probably ought to follow Gerard's direction and have his driver called
'sym' and the older driver retains 'ncr'.

What I was *meaning* when I said what I said is that with a newer and
better driver for the newer cards coming down the pipe, *don't waste
money* buying older boards which are going to not be as well maintained,
etc. *if* you have a perfectly good IDE interface.


-matt




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