[2693] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Will /dev/sg work on SPARC/Linux?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Boris Tobotras)
Tue Oct 28 06:31:01 1997
To: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Cc: S/Linux Mailinglist <sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:24:09 +0300
From: Boris Tobotras <tobotras@jet.msk.su>
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:41:30 +0100, Juan Cespedes wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Boris Tobotras wrote:
>
> > Can I use, for example, scanner on it?
>
> I've been using a scanner in a
> SparcStation 10 for 6 months now, using hpscanpbm.
>
> It works fairly well... but when I'm using
> the scanner, the system is nearly unusable, and it
> can crash when accessing the scanner and the disks
> at the same time.
>
> Does anyone else suffer this? I'm using
> latest 2.0 kernel image from vger.
I've run scanner for some time on 486 running 2.0.14 pretty well.
Recently I tried it on PPro running 2.0.31: system crashed on almost
every attempt to scan :( I can't effectively debug the system since PPro
machine is our production server. Both machines use AHA2940.
--
Best regards, -- Boris.
