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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Changes to FreeBSD kernel to keep "green" drives on
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>> Workaround for a FreeBSD bug?
>No, a BIOS-bug.

>> I think the usual way out of full sleep
>> mode is to do a soft reset, and it's reasonable for that to set the
>> geometry to the default.
>yes, but the APM BIOS-oid sets a different, and pretty badly wrong geometry,
>so I have to reset the drives default geometry.

Does it just set the BIOS geometry?  Who would know what that is :-).
I guess it is setting the geometry so that drivers don't have to.  If
it was any good then it would make it appear that the drive was never
asleep, and then the sleep hack couldn't work.

Bruce