Subject: Re: APM problems
To: Heiko W.Rupp <hwr@pilhuhn.de>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/10/1999 00:12:09
>On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 05:38:54PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> The problem is that the driver has no way to know that the disk has been put
>> in sleep mode, and it needs a reset to wakeup. So what currently happens is:
>
>Is there a way to "help" the driver by e.g. issuing some command in
>the /etc/apm/suspend script that we will suspend and that it might
>be that the drive/bus needs a reset? On wakeup the driver could 
>either directly send a reset or just use a shorter timeout.

I'm not sure it would be possible to do it then, since there might be
more disk activity to do before actually suspending.

--Ken