diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fad25b26a..5cacfeaf9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-01-21  Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
+
+	* configure configure.in: Adjusted test for sparc64 to disable
+	  SCSI generic v3.
+
 2003-01-20  Karl Heinz Kremer <khk@khk.net>
 
 	* doc/descriptions/epson.desc: Replace :new with :alpha
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 15890f481..3b1ff2c61 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -8284,7 +8284,7 @@ fi
   fi
 fi
 
-if test "`uname`" = "sparc64" ; then
+if sparc64 -q > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
 
 cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
 #define DISABLE_LINUX_SG_IO 1
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index bd1541a05..ea055f89e 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ if test "${ac_cv_header_usb_h}" = "yes" ; then
 fi
 
 dnl disable Linux SCSI generic version 3 to avoid 32/64 bit problems
-if test "`uname`" = "sparc64" ; then
+if sparc64 -q > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
   AC_DEFINE(DISABLE_LINUX_SG_IO, 1, [Should we disable SCSI generic v3?])
 fi