Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:17:26 -0700 From: Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com> To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and suspend-to-disk Message-ID: <20010704101726.A1449@bsdguru.com> In-Reply-To: <3B433888.7020304@quack.kfu.com>; from nsayer@quack.kfu.com on Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:38:48AM -0700 References: <20010703101035.A1027@bsdguru.com> <3B433888.7020304@quack.kfu.com>
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I believe I saw Nick Sayer (nsayer@quack.kfu.com) write this:
> Ben Lovett wrote:
>
> >
> >I've already created the space needed for the partition (around 250MB),
> >by running fips on the fat32 partition. But, I would like to know what
> >application I need to get that new partition "ready" for suspend to
> >disk.. Or do I just need to assign it a certain partition id?
> >
>
> Leave the space unpartitioned and run 'phdisk /create /partition' after
> booting your windows partition to DOS.
>
> ** WARNING **
>
> On my old Insperon 3500, when the suspend-to-disk partition was placed
> beyond 2G, bits of the disk would be trashed on suspend-to-disk! Maybe
> they've fixed this, maybe they haven't. :-) Since Dells generally don't
> come with a suspend-to-disk partition (they use a suspend file instead,
> but that only works under DOS), it's probably unsupported to use the
> partition (the option is there because they got it from Phoenix, their
> BIOS supplier).
>
Hrm... I'll want to think this through then.. I definately do not want
to have to rebuild my system right now. Are there any plans to possibly
support the suspend file on the DOS partition? I assume the answer is
no, but I thought it couldn't hurt to ask ;) Not that this is the best
answer, as the partition would be the ideal solution.
Thanks!
-ben
> >
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
> >
> >-ben
> >
>
>
>
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