Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Sep 1999 08:38:39 -0700 | From | Brian Macy <> | Subject | Re: BusLogic + SMP == broke |
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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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