[ltp] Hibernation on A30, again *sigh*

[Greg Herlein]

Does the FAT partition have to be formatted?  

Greg

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Jan Frey wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> > I own a A30p.
> 
> Me too.
> 
> > > I installed ps2.exe, but to
> > > my surprise, I can't create an hibernation file anymore (ps2.exe
> > > hfile), like it could be done on my 765.
> >
> > You need a special tool called stndalhd.exe. It can create a hibernation
> > file on a FAT filesystem.
> 
> I used phdisk.exe... worked just beautiful (twice!!) for me.
> I extracted IBM's files on another PC and created a bootable CD.
> 
> > > When I run phdisk.exe, it first complains about too less disk space,
> > > (my A30 has 384 MB RAM installed and the partition was just formated
> > > and contained 580 MB) and when I tried it on a larger partition, the
> > > hibernation file was created.
> >
> > AFAIK phdisk.exe is for Phoenix BIOS only and not compatible with the
> > newer TPs.
> 
> It worked for me. See above.
> 
> > > I rebooted, and my 20 GB linux
> > > partition was trashed, so I think that DOS can not handle such a bug
> > > hard drive correctly. I reinstalled Linux and tried lphdisk, without
> > > success.
> 
> Be cautious: IBM's website mentions _not_ to select "hibernation 
> *partition*"... But I'm quite certain, that you tried to create a file..
> 
> 
> > Try stndalhd.exe with FreeDOS (which you can download as ISO image, burn
> > and boot). I tried hibernation one time and was rather disappointed.
> > With 512 MB RAM it takes quite a long time to recover just to see XFree
> > locked up. But it's a nice animation while waking up. Booting into Linux
> > and starting XFree lasts no longer subjectively (? is this a correct
> > English sentence ?).
> 
> I'm using hibernation several times a day, with 384MB RAM. I couldn't
> live without it anymore ;-)
> Regarding XFree you'll have to apply the Radeon-Patch by Charl Botha.
> 
> > I have no problems with sleep mode, only the sound output is muted so
> > that I need to change both Master and PCM channels to get back sound
> > output.
> 
> No problems with sound here... I'm using plain kernel audio drivers.
> 
> Best regards
> Jan
> 
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