SJS wrote:
....but we were talking about laptops. Which, effectively, have built-in UPSes... but if you suspend 'em, and don't get back to them in time (as I often fail to do*) or they don't resume from hibernation properly, you get a significant failure.
A suspend should NEVER result in a failure upon restart. Suspend is supposed to stop all running processes, write the contents of memory to disk (including video memory), and shutdown the system (or put it in a very low power mode - I use suspend here to cover all versions of stopping the computer outside of turning it off).
If power is lost while it's suspended, then upon restart, the system should check to see if it was suspended prior to power loss. If so, it should restore the system from the data written to the suspend file(s).
I have yet to see a system work this way (I have not tried suspending Vista and unplugging the P/S to see if it does any better than any other system I've used).
PGA -- Paul G. Allen, BSIT/SE Owner, Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting http://www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
