apm problems on thinkpad

[julian at holley.uklinux.net (Julian Holley)]

Hi all - I'm having problems with an IBM TP 390x laptop - I'm using apm
on FreeBSD5.2 (not acpi) - suspend works but on resume I get the resume
messages stall at :-

"ata0: resetting devices .."     -> leads to total lock

and the activity LED on the drive stays active and the whole machine
locks :(

I've used apm on other OSes on this machine i.e windows and Linux
2.2.*/2.4.*

It's as though the drive doesn't seem to come back on line !?

Many thanks for any pointers .... J