Also for folks wanting to play with S3, the latest kernel, 2.6.26.5 plays much better with some later mobos for S3.

 

You will also find the s2ram package VERY helpful, as it has many more options and works much more reliably than acpitool, apm, or writing out to the /proc device.

I think it's time for me to go back to the wiki and relevant threads to do some "light" reading and learn how to incorporate something like that.

Remember, you have to roll your own kernel.

So are you saying your unRAID server goes into Standby and you can wake it?

 

Actually it powers down, it doesn't go into standby, and then I can power it up using a WOL script.  The array gets stopped properly during shutdown, so that isn't an issue with my approach.  The power-on is slower than waking from sleep, but it hasn't been an issue for me, and waking from sleep doesn't really seem to be an option yet anyways 

So are you saying your unRAID server goes into Standby and you can wake it?

 

Actually it powers down, it doesn't go into standby, and then I can power it up using a WOL script.  The array gets stopped properly during shutdown, so that isn't an issue with my approach.  The power-on is slower than waking from sleep, but it hasn't been an issue for me, and waking from sleep doesn't really seem to be an option yet anyways 

What options are on your mobo for your NIC? wake from s5?

I have a BIOSTAR TA690 AM2, and I can WOL from power off.

What options are on your mobo for your NIC? wake from s5?

 

Sorry, I have a headless system and it would be a pain to check the bios settings.  It was easy to do though so if your mb supports it, I think it would be pretty evident. I have an ASUS A8N-VM CSM MB.

BTW, one thing to think about.... when you resume from S3, all the drives will spin up.

 

Even with power-up in standby enabled and set, they still all spin up.

BTW, one thing to think about.... when you resume from S3, all the drives will spin up.

 

Even with power-up in standby enabled and set, they still all spin up.

 

Yeah...I figured this would happen.  The ability to spin them down again automatically after a short (User defined) period would be great.  1 hour is too long.  Is this something that could be easily added to unMENU?  I've only recently upgraded to 4.3.3 and the spin up/down buttons are great.  It's still a pity the auto spindown is 1 hour though.

If you are going to play with S3 suspend, you will need to write a script to do "housekeeping" before calling s2ram, and the script will continue with the commands after s2ram when it wakes up.... you can put hdparm commands there to immediately spin down the drives on wakeup.