[ltp] Question about suspend to ram

Laurent Gilson linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:52:13 +0200


Hello,

> I have a question about suspend to ram under Linux : does the suspend to  
> ram
> parks the hard drive head ?

yes.

> I know under Windows it doesn't park the head

In real suspend-to-ram windows does park the heads. In fact the disc  
autoparks the heads as soon as the drive spins down.

Now there is a windows-suspend Mode which simply turns off the display...

cu