No it has everything to do with determining if the HBA is in compatablity
or native mode and if the device is properly enabled.

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:49:43PM +0400, Nick Evgeniev wrote:
> 
>  >     Why are you so assure? It's "msi 845e Max" with LAN on-board mb with
>  > _latest_ BIOS installed....
>  > Just FYI 2.4.18 was even unable to run eepro100 driver on it while intels
>  > e100 driver was working perfectly.
> 
> Could this be related to the pci id clash I pointed out last week?
> That id was for an intel IDE device iirc.
> 
> (Recap: Two id's don't tally between 2.4/2.5)
> 
>         Dave
> 
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