Re: Thinkpad 600 Power Management Issues (HD turned on and off)

Eric Hedström <[email protected]> writes:

> Do you all have apm enabled in your kernels and rc.conf files? My 560X
> does not do this, running 4.5-release or -stable from last weekend. I
> have apm enabled in the kernel (removed the word "disable"):

I'll have to check, but sounds like this doesn't help Kenan.


> The reason I ask is that in my old Thinkpad, a 701C, the hard drive
> would just shut down when I closed the lid (making the system quite
> unhappy, getting the filesystem yanked out from under it), until I
> enabled apm.

I think I would prefer this (just keep the lid open) than having the
drive spin up/down all the time, killing performance. 

Sounds like you've never seen this spin up/down problem, with or
without APM, so it seems like it may be something else.


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