2000-10-26 22:51:57

by Russell King

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] make my life easier ...

Andre Hedrick writes:
> APM signals ATA/IDE to goto sleep.
> IDE then records and buffers the setup of the host and device.
> IDE forces device and host to PIO 0 (imortant step, explain later)
> IDE issues spindown and sleep task-command.
> IDE returns to APM with success/failure.

Insert here... BIOS tries to hibernate to disk and finds the disk already
asleep.

> success, sets request_queue blocker flag (very critical)
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