# Re: SANE on Linux/x86 with SCSI ISA card

From: Ingo Wilken (Ingo.Wilken@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 14:11:29 PDT

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  > > I don't think that the sym53c8xx driver will work with the 53c80 chip.
  > > The designs of the old fashioned 5380 and of the more modern 53c8xx chip
  > > series are quite different.
  > Nope, reading the README.ncr53c8xx I understood that the sym53c8xx driver
  > supports some of the functions on newer cards, dropping support for the older
  > ones. Since the older drivers will also work with newer cards, I think that one
  > will be best for me.
  >
  > But I thought all those ncr SCSI adapters were PCI cards, while mine is an ISA
  > card?

  Despite the very similar name, a NCR5380 is quite different from NCR53c8xx.
  The 5380 is a very ancient design (I have an 8bit ISA-card built in 1986
  with this chip), the 53c8xx is a modern chip designed for PCI. In fact,
  the chip really provides a PCI bus on one side and a SCSI bus on the other
  side, so these cards usually consist of just the chip, a clock crystal, a
  few resistors and capacitors and the SCSI connectors (at least for BIOS-less
  53c810- and 53c860-based cards). Try the g_NCR5380 driver with your card.

  Regards,
  Ingo

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