On Tuesday 13 March 2001 15:23, Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the > > facilities that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program > > which uses space on an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM > > + Video RAM + a small amount. > > On the old thinkpads they used to use a partition of type a0, however it > seems that more recent thinkpads only support the DOS file suspend. > BUGGER. However you may find that its an "undocumented" feature. Try > creating the partition and see what happens. I imagine IBM removed this > feature because people couldn't understand the existance of anything but > FAT partitions, this probably caused problems for re-installs. > > Create a partition of type a0 and see what the BIOS says when you suspend. > If it doesn't work....then make a DOS partition and live with it.
I've just tried a partition of type A0 and it doesn't work. Making a DOS partition is a problem as I don't have Windows installed and it seems that there is no DOS software to setup such a partition. Hmm. Could someone with a DOS partition setup please tell me the name and attributes of such a file? Maybe if I use a file with the right name and attributes it'll just work... -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
