Re: APM-related crashes (flaky IDE RESET)

David Monniaux (monniaux@clipper.ens.fr)
Wed, 19 May 1999 16:30:54 +0200 (MET DST)


On Wed, 19 May 1999, Mark Lord wrote:

> No, the problem is that the chipset in the laptop has extra registers
> to power-down circuitry, like the IDE, when power management is
> activated by the BIOS. The Linux IDE driver has no knowledge of
> those chipsets, and therefore does not know anything about how to
> turn them back on again so it can talk to the drives.

It used to work using 2.0.36 :-).
Mind, the HD was replaced, so it is possible the HD doesn't wake up
properly.

-- David

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