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SubjectRe: BusLogic + SMP == broke
Pauline Middelink wrote:
>
> I had the same kind of problem on the Alpha, luckely the FAQ helped. It
> seems the
> scanner I had (Mustek 600) does not do SCSI-disconnects and thus hangs
> the bus
> when the kernel tries to swap the very big image...
>
> Solution I did was telling the SCSI driver the scanner could'nt do
> disconnects
> (disc:n) and writing the file to an NFS drive...
>
> This works till I scan stuff which is bigger than the 88MB memory :)

Interesting... though not an acceptable workaround for me (it's a hack
and sometimes I end up with 200+ meg scans). I do believe disconnect is
off for the scanner.

Brian Macy

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