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(i'm italian so be patient if my english isn't perfect, Thanks.) When i try to put the pc in stand-by mode (suspend to RAM) it works but when it goes ...
  1. 04-08-2011 #1
    Enry211
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    Standby "kills" my HardDisk (CentOS 5.5)

    (i'm italian so be patient if my english isn't perfect, Thanks.)
    When i try to put the pc in stand-by mode (suspend to RAM) it works but when it goes in standby mode i hear "stek" from the hard disk.
    It's like if i press and hold the power button to remove the power supply.

    How can i fix this problem?

    P.S. When i boot appears a message: ATA1 SOFTRESET FAILED. Is it related to this problem?
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    CentOS and RHEL 5.x had problems with suspend/resume operations. You might try 5.6 to see if that is fixed. If not, then RHEL6 (or Scientific Linux 6) have definitely fixed this problem.
    Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
    Just remember, Semper Gumbi - always be flexible!
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    Thank you for your reply. I'll try CentOS 5.6 but i can't find CentOS 6, it doesn't exist yet?
    Scientific linux 6 is a RHEL6-based distro?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Enry211 View Post
    Thank you for your reply. I'll try CentOS 5.6 but i can't find CentOS 6, it doesn't exist yet?
    Scientific linux 6 is a RHEL6-based distro?
    CentOS 6 is still nowhere to be seen. Yes, Scientific Linux is an RHEL clone. It is maintained by the US Fermi National Laboratory as well as other major physics labs such as CERN, Desy, Argonne, etc. It is stable, and complete. I've been using SL6 since early January without any OS problems. Check it out here: Scientific Linux - Welcome to Scientific Linux (SL)
    Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
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    Hi. There are three possible modes. Here are the common names

    1. Standby - screen off, but psu and cpu still use power. Used to fool pc owners into thinking they were saving power, when they were still using at least half power. You don't want to bother with this.

    2. Suspend - suspend operations to ram. Everything goes quiet but you still use some battery. Consumes very little power, but will run the battery down in time.

    3.Hibernate - writes everything to the swap partition, and kills the box. You use no power. If you boot on the same kernel, it can resume.

    What type of pc have you? Post the output from
    cat /sys/power/state

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