On Jan 28, Perry E. Metzger wrote
> 
> A friend of mine just installed on a Thinkpad model 600. He reports:
> 
>    Power management is behaving very badly for me.  Closing the lid
>    seems to go to standby, not suspend, a surprise (standby keeps the
>    fan going on my machine).  Device drivers need to know that they
>    should shut up during a suspend, and how to resume afterwards -- I get
>    assorted errors, including from the disk driver, during standby.  And
>    I have trouble waking up after suspend -- the disk doesn't restart,
>    though the screen is repainted.  I've resumed successfully at most
>    once, and maybe zero times -- the one success was before I noticed
>    the 'standby' business, and I don't remember how I initiated that one.
> 
> Anyone else have any experience with APM on the '600, or other ideas?
> I want to help him debug this before he installs another operating
> system...
> 

About the disk problem: what error is reported ? The driver should time
out and issue a reset, which should wake up the drive ...

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