Subject: Re: suspend-to-disk and USB
To: None <aball@students.prairiestate.edu>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/08/2007 10:46:13
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 07:16:04 -0000 (GMT)
"Andrew Ball" <aball@students.prairiestate.edu> wrote:
>
> > "Since you're a NetBSD (...), could you tell me simply and
> > honestly whether NetBSD does have anything like support for
> > suspend-to-disk that would actually work?
>
> I previously used NetBSD on an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT and
> can confirm that suspend and resume worked without problems. This
> machine had APM firmware and did not need ACPI.
>
Suspend to disk? I haven't seen that work on a BSD-based system since
my Thinkpad Butterfly, where the BIOS did it all.
As for mounting USB devices -- amd does it just fine, in first
reference, *if* you've set things up properly.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb