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From: TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET (Turgut Kalfaoglu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Auto resume considered essential
Message-ID: <91022.100329TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET>
Date: 22 Jan 91 11:35:45 GMT
References: <2833@charon.cwi.nl>
Organization: Ege University - Computing Center
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I am not sure what you mean by auto resume, but on Tandy laptops
(I assume they all share the same BIOS) there is a setup screen
where you specify the time in minutes when the machine will turn off
its display and enter 'sleep' mode. only a LED stays on to tell you
that the machine is not really off. You hit a key,and it jumps back
to life. For some programs that do not use BIOS for keyboard (games
usually) I had to disable this feature because the machine would go
into standby while you are playing with it.

Another two neat things this BIOS does are:
  1) Parks drive after each use (it sits idle for about 2 seconds
     after an access, then parks it. You can hear it zip accross)
     This is nifty to protect the drive from accidental bumps.

  2) Stops drive if you don't use it for a while.The next time you access the
     hard disk, it starts up again. It takes about 4 seconds to start
     writing once it has stopped. No compatibility problems experienced
     (although I would have expected DEVICE NOT READY errors from 'nervous'
     applications.)

Regards, -turgut