Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:58:29 -0800 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: ZC Wong <zcwong@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suspend to disk on a Toshiba Portege R100 Message-ID: <420D54B5.8090308@root.org> In-Reply-To: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAA/Bwc9H/130KWclPMGJDiasKAAAAQAAAAc7USBIoY4k%2BLJf4K3FKodAEAAAAA@acm.org> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAA/Bwc9H/130KWclPMGJDiasKAAAAQAAAAc7USBIoY4k%2BLJf4K3FKodAEAAAAA@acm.org>
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Sorry, can't help much there. All I can say is if you make a partition of the wrong type or size, the attempt to suspend may blow away valid data since the BIOS doesn't do much careful checking generally. -Nate ZC Wong wrote: > I've already looked around on google but I didn't find anything about such > kind of partition on Toshiba machines (there are bunches of articles talking > about IBM and Dell). Is it possible to guess the type and size of this > partition by any chance if I assume this is the case? Say if I create a > partition (primary? or logical partition?) with exactly the same size of the > physical memory, and then try labelling the partition with random types > until the BIOS recognises it? I am just wondering if there's a general idea > what this partition would be look like. > > Zi > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nate Lawson [mailto:nate@root.org] > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 12:39 AM > To: ZC Wong > Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Suspend to disk on a Toshiba Portege R100 > > ZC Wong wrote: > >>The default value of hw.acpi.s4bios is 1, but it does the same thing as S3 >>instead of what it's supposed to do. > > > Yes, sounds like you need a suspend partition. Perhaps Toshiba has a > utility on their website to build this. Alternately, if you know the > partition type you can use fips or Partition Magic to create one > manually. Be careful not to damage your partition table and lose data. > > -Nate > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Nate Lawson [mailto:nate@root.org] >>Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 12:08 AM >>To: ZC Wong >>Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org >>Subject: Re: Suspend to disk on a Toshiba Portege R100 >> >>ZC Wong wrote: >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I installed FreeBSD 5.3 release on my Toshiba Portege R100. >>> >>>S4BIOS worked but it doesn't suspend to disk, it looks like it's >>>basically doing the same thing as S3 when I try "acpiconf -s 4" with >>>hw.acpi.s4bios set to 1. S4OS (hw.acpi.s4bios=0) doesn't work, it brings >>>the machine down. >> >> >>Is hw.acpi.s4bios set when you boot or are you overriding it? >> >> >> >>>It looks like s4bios needs some sort of hibernation partition to work >>>properly, but I haven't found anything about fixing up such kind of >>>partition on Toshiba??? >>> >>>Alternatively, the handbook I found in freebsd.org dosen't say if I need >>>any special configuration to allow S4OS to work? >> >> >>S4OS is not implemented yet, no estimated start date on work. >> > > > -- Nate
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