Hi Billy,

The z50 has a single battery.  I guess I should
look into getting a dual-LiIon.

You may be correct that the CPU is still running
or not actually suspended.  Maybe things will
be better with the dual LiIon battery.

Thanks for responding.
Chris

On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 12:03  PM, billy ball wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Christopher Richmond wrote:
>
>>      I wrote a script which continually read in
>>       and wrote out a file to disk.  The system
>>       ran for about 4 hours before the battery
>>       died.    I suppose using the disk so much
>>       may have been what caused the system
>>       to quit after 4 hours.  Does anyone have
>>       any comments about this?  I'm wondering
>>       if my battery may need to be replaced.
>
> single battery or the dual-LiIon? if single, then that's about right...
>
>> 2) Suspend mode battery life.
>>
>>       If I suspend the system while running
>>       NetBSD with a full battery and leave the
>>       system alone for around 12 hours, the battery
>>       is down to around 31%.  If I suspend the
>>       system while running Windows CE and
>>       leave it for the same amount of time, the
>>       system is only down to around 97%.
>
> IIRC, the LCD is suspended... i've noticed that PCMCIA is also 
> suspended,
> but CPU still runs?
>
>>       Am I missing something on the suspend
>>       mode under NetBSD or should I shutdown
>>       NetBSD and suspend under Windows CE?
>
> that's one approach, but never use CE as it makes me 'wince'...
>
> :-)
>