Well actually the APM bios needs fixing
> I think that bios is supposed to make a call before doing suspend. It may
> make sense (as a hack) to explicitly load needed utils into memory before
> allowing it to suspend. Or, better, make kernel default to the safest mode
> w.r.t. disk i.o. and then switch with hdparm. (this will allow apmd
> to load).
The bios is supposed to save the state of stuff. I understood the problem
as being the disk reverted back to dumb mode, in which case presumably you
can at least slowly run hdparm ..
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