On Nov 3, Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > That is probably for a suspend to disk feature. My Vaio can do that, > > too, as well as suspend to RAM. Suspend to disk takes longer, but > > uses much less power. Since this is controlled by the BIOS, it is > > independent of the operating system, so it should work under Linux. > > I'd keep it, but if you do lose it, you can probably restore it (if > > your notebook uses the Phoenix BIOS). I had to restore mine with the > > lphdisk utility. > > yep. one note make sure that the 'boot' flag is set on the partition with > the suspend to disk file/partition or the thinkpad won't recognise it and > none of the apm stuff will work.
Interesting. This is not necessary on the Vaio. > > there's a little more info on my thinkpad page. > > http://www.spack.org/geek/thinkpad-390.html > > adam. -- Neil L. Roeth neil-at-occamsrazor.net