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On Thu, 19 Jun 97 13:20:13 -0800, laniear@ibm.net wrote: > >Gerry, > >I guess it is different over different machines and I also have the impression that the 701 >is even more different. > >I purposely tried my suspend yesterday by letting the machine sit. The display suspends, >and then the disk and then the CPU. It sat for over an hour with no drop in the battery >level indicator. > >Boy, you're right about the 200 MB partition for warp 4. I had been previously installing >OS/2 on 150 MB partitions. I now have a 350 MB partition for it (I installed Voice Type >and Java development). > >Lee > >> >> In-Reply-To: <199706171519.LAA001.56@AST01.ligsystems.com> >> > What kind of suspend and PCMCIA problems are you having. I installed >> Warp 4.0 on my TP >> > 701C (24 meg, 1.0 GB) using a serial port SCSI adapter connected to an >> external NEC CD-ROM. >> > On mine suspend works just fine as does my PCMCIA token ring adapter. >> >> Lee >> >> 1. the pcmcia problem appears to be a card services memory clash that is >> probably peculiar to the CD versions. So long as the diskette drive is in >> the ultrabay the ethernet card works fine, but if the cdrom drive is in >> place then my ethernet card is turned off. The solution is to >> specifically allocate shared memory for the pcmcia card and at any >> address *except* 80000. >> >> 2. suspend only turns the lcd display off, not the cpu. So the battery >> keeps draining. The only way I seem to be able to get a proper suspend is >> to shut the lid whilst on mains power, then remove the mains cord. Which >> is fine provided I don't actually want to use the thinkpad during the >> journey ..... >> >> 3. the mwave/dsp problem only affects non-US/Canada users of the internal >> dsp modem. Previously we had a separate diskette to set up the telephony >> functions; it is no longer required and will stop the modem working if >> you install it. >> >> 4. boot partition of 200Meg is not big enough to include java .....(not >> being a pentium, I did not even try to install voice-talk) .... >> >> Other than that it seems fine, and has one huge bonus over Warp Connect; >> I can now remove the ethernet card whilst the machine is running, and it >> continues running. Previously, that was an instant trap requiring reboot. >> >> Gerry >> >> Does anyone know about that problem, where the 701 won't suspend on its own using a preset option for power management? Mine suspends automatically only in Custom mode. Too bad I couldn't alter the flash BIOS image myself... Paul Regards, Paul Khoury pkhoury@earthlink.net