[ltp] Question on APM vs ACPI

[Justin Mason]

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Didrik Pinte writes:
> Le jeudi 09 décembre 2004 à 10:57 -0500, Eben King a écrit :
> > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Bob Alexander wrote:
> > 
> > > Didrik Pinte wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Le mercredi 08 dcembre 2004  21:21 +0100, Bob Alexander a crit :
> > > >
> > > >>Fn+F12 does absolutely NOTHING.
> > > >
> > > >Did you create a save2dsk.bin file on a the first fat32 partition of
> > > >your laptop ? If it's not the case, you won't be able to use the
> > > >Suspend-to-disk mode.
> > > 
> > > What do you mean by "first fat32 partition" ?
> > 
> > Yeah, is that lowest partition number or lowest cylinder number?  And what 
> > if you have no FAT32 partitions (I don't)?
> 
> I do think (but to be sure verify it) that Phoenix bios suspend to disk
> tool does work only with fat or fat32 partitions ! 
> 
> The lowest partition is, I think, the first one detected by the bios ;-)
> 
> Sorry for the poor quality of the information but it is  based on things
> I have done one year ago. I did not keep links or documents about that.

fwiw, I found that only a FAT32 partition would work -- FAT16 had some
limitation that meant a big-enough suspend-to-disk file for my 1Gb RAM
could not be created.

- --j.
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