Re: 2.4.5-ac1 hard disk corruption... acpi responsible?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun May 27 2001 - 12:17:16 EST

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> Today I moved to 2.4.5-ac1, the only different thing
> than normal was I enabled ACPI instead of APM.

Bad idea. The kernel ACPI is not the most debugged, the ACPI in many BIOSes
is complete garbage and there isnt a lot you can do to debug them either.

APM is a definite better choice, at least in the shorter term

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