> Some laptop BIOSes do try to access the controller at certain points, > like suspend or powerdown (presumably to make sure the drive heads are > unloaded or something) - we've run into problems in the past when the > controller was disabled at points where the BIOS didn't expect it to > be and it was trying to poke at it, causing a big delay until it > finally gave up. Suspend/powerdown are less of a problem because any patch to put it into AHCI mode should put it back as it was before during suspend/poweroff. It's strange goings in in the background that are more of a concern. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
