Laptop suspend / hibernate wake up problem with disk.

Edward Dekkers edward at tdcs.com.au
Mon Dec 18 21:50:25 UTC 2006


Neil Marjoram wrote:
> I have an IBM X31 laptop which works very well with FC6, but I have 
> issues with the suspend and hibernate wake up. Which ever method and 
> combination I use I always seem to fail with the same problem. When 
> waking the laptop the system seems to start OK and work fine and then 
> after about 30 seconds (variable) the disk light lights permanently and 
> the system stops responding. This is happening with Gnome and KDE. I am 
> sure that the disk is being accessed because I did a test (not 
> advisable) of pulling the hard disk out, when the disk is out the system 
> starts to work again (well up until an apps needs to read or write to 
> disk!). I don't know what the system is doing at this time as I can't 
> use the keyboard when the disk is busy and I can't gain access via ssh.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Neil.
> 

It really is worth running the manufacturer's disk diagnostics on that 
disk in my opinion.

Regards,
Ed.




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