On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> >
> > Another feature I miss is suspend-to-disk. My laptop has a replaced hard
> > disk, and obviously the BIOS doesn't support the suspend feature with this
> > disk (it doesn't work with Win95 or DOS either).
> >
> Most laptops require a special section of the harddrive set aside for
> suspend. This usually is seen as a partition between 50 and 150 mb in size
> with an odd type and often a special format. On my VAIO it expects to be
> at a certain sector. The only way to recreate it is to run your windows
> recovery cd on the drive, which will likely fail if you changed the drive
> the size. At least this is what I have seen.
Indeed: Acer delivers a DOS based utility to (re)create this file in a DOS
partition, but this utility fails to work with the new disk, and I was told
that this is a known problem with unsupported disks (unsupported by the BIOS
that is), therefore I thought about swsusp.
Gregor
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