[ltp] TP600E hibernate partition

[James McKenzie]

Andre:

Only for the A, T and X series.  The 600 series used a special file 
located in a FAT Partition named PM_HIBER.BIN.  This file, at a minimum, 
must be large enough to contain your system memory plus video ram plus 1 
MB.   This file is created by the PS2.EXE program when you boot up the 
system with a DOS boot disk (available from several sources on the 
Internet.)  You MUST create either a FAT16 or FAT32 partition to place 
this file in.

With the A, T and X series of Thinkpads you can either create a special 
partition (type A0) or create the save2dsk.bin file (which is what I 
use).  File size is as above and can be created using the PHDISK.EXE 
program or TPHDISK program (available as source code ONLY on the 
Internet, as far as I know.)  You run the program and it creates the 
file for you.  Program use is very simple.

Good luck with your hibernation problem.

James McKenzie


André Wyrwa wrote:

>Hi,
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>>>From what I have read it is possible to create a hibernation partition
>>and use it in Linux, without the use of a DOS/Win installation.
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>I also heard it's possible to use the special Thinkpad Hibernate
>Partition (partition type A0) and am considering doing that, but it
>seems like hardly anyone ever does. The hibernate file on a fat
>partition method seems to be much more popular and hence more explored.
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>>Assuming so, how big should such a partition be?  TP600E with 192MB RAM.
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>To be on the safe side for future RAM upgrades I'd suggest a 320 MB
>partition (as i understand the 600E can usually carry about 288MB max).
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>In case you have one of the more rarely that have a 512 MB max you might
>want to make it 544 MB large.
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>With both you should be on the safe side, if your harddrive is large
>enough. 
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>Considering that the TP600e has 2MB Video RAM You should however be fine
>with something around 224 MB.
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>(I calculated 32 MB for video ram and safety.)
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>Andre.
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