Thanks for your reply.I've built the kernel with apm as a module. I've modprobe'd the apm module now (/proc/apm reports -1% battery charge :-) ) and installed apmd - i'll see if that changes anything.
christian At 20:13 Uhr -0500 18.8.2001, Brian McGroarty wrote:
With a previous machine, I recall seeing the above when a hard drive was configured by the BIOS to power down after some period of non-use, but power management wasn't built into the kernel. There was never any data loss, only the disturbing messages. Building a kernel with power support fixed it.