On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:50:50AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:13:47 +0200
> Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > It is not related to uswsusp, it is related to suspend to ram. The kernel
> > disables the HPA on boot. The harddrive is power cycled during suspend to
> > RAM. After resume, HPA is not disabled again. => boom.
> 
> OK, so the kernel needs to disable HPA on resume to.

Yes, but it probably is more than only the HPA. IIUC that the whole IDE
resume stuff needs to be fixed properly.

> > You can verify this with:
> > - "hdparm -I /dev/hda > /tmp/identify-before"
> > - s2ram
> > - "hdparm -I /dev/hda > /tmp/identify-after"
> > 
> > then diff identify-before and identify-after, the disk will report different
> > sizes.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, once the Predesktop Area was disabled, you cannot reenable
> > it, so the bug is only reproducible until the "fix" with disabling the hpa
> > is made.
> 
> So Daniel won't be able to reproduce this anymore... is that correct Daniel?

Well, that is at least what we saw on our T41p. Probably restoring the 
machine from the recovery CDs will restore everything so it can be reproduced.
If it turns out to be really necessary, we will have to do that :-)

> > I will have a novell bugzilla report number about this soon.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=198401 BTW.
 
> Does this mean you (stefan) are going to make sure this gets fixed in the 
> kernel?

Unfortunately not, but i will try to poke somebody to get them to get 
somebody to fix it. :-)
-- 
Stefan Seyfried                     | "Please, just tell people
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices        |               to use KDE."
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg  |          -- Linus Torvalds

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