Hello!

> Do you have any problems if you put the CPU into standby mode (that mode
> is not as deep a "sleep" as suspend, and should not depower or screw up
> any device configs)?

Yes :-( `apm -S` freezes the machine (with and without your patches), no
chance to resume on keystroke/touching mouse. Had to powercycle.

At least I remember that in January 1997 both, `apm -z` and `apm -S`
worked without those problems (at that time I had also already applied
the atapi and pcmcia patches).

> The fix is probably to put APM suspend/resume hooks into the device
> drivers for things like disk & pcmcia.

For my only pcmcia card (Etherlink III 3C589C) I worked arround this
in /etc/apm/{suspend/resume} with explicitly unconfiguring the slot.

Greets
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