Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 21:05:28 -0700 From: Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and suspend-to-disk Message-ID: <20010704210528.A691@bsdguru.com> In-Reply-To: <3B4353BE.927522EF@ufl.edu>; from bobj@ufl.edu on Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:34:54PM -0400 References: <20010703101035.A1027@bsdguru.com> <3B433888.7020304@quack.kfu.com> <3B4353BE.927522EF@ufl.edu>
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I believe I saw Bob Johnson (bobj@ufl.edu) write this: > Nick Sayer wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > If you were starting from scratch, I'd recommend setting up the phdisk > partition before you install FreeBSD, so it can use whatever phdisk > leaves behind. An alternative is to leave more than it needs as unused > disk space, then run phdisk, then use Partition Magic or fips to reclaim > the leftover unused space. > > I don't think your phdisk partition will need to be twice the size of your > memory (I think you mentioned that in a previous posting). I think it > only needs to be the size of your ram plus a few megabytes of overhead. > E.G. on my system I have 196 MB of RAM, my phdisk partition is 206 MB. > > > ** 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). > > > > I've been using a suspend-to-disk partition for about a year in my > Inspiron 7500, and haven't had any problems. It's suspend-to-ram that > is unreliable (in Windows and in FreeBSD, and it seems to work better > in FreeBSD). Suspend-to-disk mostly works fine with Windows 98 also, > except that it is likely to get confused if it wakes up with a different > hardware configuration than it went to sleep with. > > A vague description of how I set up my system is at > http://www.afn.org/~afn01750/inspiron.html > It might provide you with some useful clues. > Well.. I followed the directions that Nick Sayer described (phdisk /create /partition), and the Dell BIOS still fails to find the s2d partition :( I'm thinking of contacting Dell regarding this issue, but that will have to wait until I find out if my disk is infact dying.. I hope not, as I have only had this system for 3 weeks!! As to another question that I have that is totally unrelated to suspending to disk.. When I suspend my system, everything works fine and dandy. But, when I go to close the display, as soon as it latches, the system seems to resume, then suspend again, effectively giving power to the HD, and then killing it almost immediatly. I believe this is the reason behind some strange noises that I hear comming from my disk every once in a while. It sounds like one of the heads is moving rather abruptly, or something like that. Has anyone else noticed similar behaviour on Dell i8k's built as of late? Thanks! -ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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