>Yup.  So, it looks like, if this laptop is to develop a sleep mode, I'll need
>to write new code for it.  The one other option is to put in a scratch drive
>and play with HP's factory restore disk; it may be possible to create a
>partition with that, but the only documented way to do it on any laptop
>involves wiping the disk - and there's no reference to it in the docs for
>the Pavilion line of notebooks.

I had time to play with this.  The factory restore CD lets you create a
"hibernate partition", but it doesn't seem to work.

-s