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Re: getting a mutant 560 to hibernate



On Mon, 04 Aug 97 23:54:23 +0300, Dominique Pivard wrote:

>On Sun, 03 Aug 1997 at 09:54 PM you, "Paul Khoury"
><pkhoury@earthlink.net>, said:
>
>>I also had a struggle on this machine trying to get my hibernation file
>>to be created in HPFS, although I heard IBM fixed this in the bios. 
>>Maybe they only fixed it where it recognizes it.  I think that the BIOS
>>only likes to recognize 16 bit FAT.  I now have a 40MB partition (drive
>>D:), with some small things and a 13MB hibernation file.
>
>I'm not sure whether this is relevant for the 560 but someone recently
>mentioned a web page that contained lots of useful information related to
>the TP701 & Warp, including a REXX script that created a proper
>hibernation file on an HPFS partition.
>
>I tried it on the only partition (HPFS) of my TP701 and sure enough it did
>create the file and I was able to use hibernation thereafter.
>
>The URL was off www.secant.com/sipples/
>
>Maybe the magic the REXX script does in HPFS can be adapted for NT's
>native file system (to address the original poster's problem).
>
>Dominique
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>Dominique Pivard <domi@kenavo.fi>
>Helsinki, Finland
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>
>
I hear there are some similarities, but I wouldn't really know, as I
either have FAT 12/16, HPFS, Minix, or EXT2.  I know that NTFS
has some nice features, though, and it can be accessed from
DOS by a small program called NTFSDOS.

Paul
Regards,

Paul Khoury
pkhoury@earthlink.net