Re: promise ultra 133 tx2 lets system standby during use...?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 05:59:25 EST


On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 11:21, Thomas Munck Steenholdt wrote:
> I've been having a lot of problems with my Ultra 133 TX2 controller,
> that if I boot my system a just doesn't touch it for a while, the system
> suspends to complete standby, even though the ext3 data is committed
> every 5 secs. causing disk activity and thus should disallow standby
> behaviour (at least that's the way it works on my onboard controller).

Lots of BIOSes are not bright enough to monitor a second IDE controller.
You should be able to frob in the APM/ACPI bios and add its IRQ line to
the monitor list

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