On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 23:42, Jack Moffitt wrote: > This sounds like the sleep patch bug that has cooked a few ibooks > (including mine some time ago). Your data should be fine. I sent mine > to apple support and paid the $50 (conditional if they need to replace > the hd and can back it up successfully) to have the data saved. It came > back fine, and they ddn't charge me the $50 which I assume meant that > the harddrive didn't need to be replaced. > > Does anyone know if this problem is fixed in newer benh kernels? I've > been absolutely paranoid of sleep since this happened.
As far as I know, there is no sleep patch bug. There may be a HW defect on some series of iBooks causing them to eventually fry on sleep, but afaik, this is not related to a sw bug, and may happen with OSX as well... Ben.
