> 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.