On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:53:05PM +0100, Mikael Cardell wrote: > After I upgraded my Thinkpad 570 to Linux 2.4.0 I started noticing > that it complained about losing interrupts and that the HDD wouldn't > spin up after suspend one time in 10 or so. It's very irritating and > means I have to reboot to get the HDD spinning again. If I revert to a > 2.2.x kernel, this never happens. > > I'm guessing it has something to do with the APM support and I've > tried different configurations, like allowing or disallowing > interrupts during calls to the APM BIOS, but to no avail. I will check > again with a 2.4.2 kernel as soon as I get back on a fatter pipe (I'm > at home trying to fight the flu right now), and I hope that will fix > things. > > Has anyone else had any similar problems?
Yes. I've seen this on my AST 810N. I don't use my laptop a very much (I will more once I get the NIC working and get stuff transfered to a new HD...). When I have used it, I've had problems with this sometimes. IIRC, having apmd _not_ running let it spin down the driver without problems. I used hdparm -S96 /dev/hda to set the spin-down time on my drive. I don't remember what I figured out about it, and whether the kernel will spin down the drive when it's ready or what. You said it only happens one time in 10 for you. I had it happening every time, or never, depending on how I set stuff up, IIRC. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
