[plug] suspend to ram

[William Kenworthy]

Hi Brad, that sounds neat.  Can you post the relevant part of
hibernate.conf where I presume this is setup?

Does libata fix the problem where powering off the cdrom (using
sony_acpi) renders the cdrom useless until a clean boot, and sometimes
kills the ide bus altogether?

BillK


On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 12:55 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> After much futzing about I finally got s2ram working on my laptop last evening..
> have to say.. it rocks!
> 
> 5 seconds to resume when I hit a key or the power button just makes the machine so much more usable 
> in a business context when lugging it from meeting to meeting.
> 
> I have suspend2 configured and I've got it set up to hibernate at shutdown and then just s2ram, so 
> if I do something silly like swap batteries or leave it too long my work is all there when I come 
> back anyway. Great combination.
> 
> I had to use a 2.6.18-rc1 kernel with all the libata patches from -mm to make it happen (as I was 
> having no joy resuming my hard disk using the IDE drivers). Now my cdrom and hard disk are /dev/sd* 
> and running under libata. I have ATA compiled as modules just for PCMCIA ATA devices and it all 
> seems to be pretty smooth. Alan Cox has done a great job converting most of the old IDE drivers over 
> to libata.
> 
> I have to say, linux is finally making it...
> 
> Brad
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