[UnaClocker]

If you are finding this thread in the future, the sleep issue has been solved. Sleep will not work on the factory STEC SSD. Simply swap it for another brand and you will have functional sleep.

[locoocol]

Hi, ive reading your post and many more, regarding the sleep issue, but it wasn´t until you mention this that I realise something I saw in jkkmobile.

In the following video, the guys at JKKmobile, taped a couple of pins on a PCI-e WWAN Card in order to use it with the Dell Mini 9. They did this method with the pci-e slot used for the WLAN card but maybe we are seeing something similar with the SSD.

I dont have my MINI 9 yet, but maybe you can give it a try.

This is the JKKmobile post:
http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2008/1...ni-9-easy.html

And this is a similar problem found at insanelymac forum:
http://www.insanelymac.com/lofiversi...hp/t15659.html

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[UnaClocker]

Yeah, that's where I got this idea.

[zardoz42]

I think it is more along the line of OS X's Safe Sleep feature. Somewhat like Windows hibernation, where the state of teh computer is saved to memory, so if the battery is taken out, a power-failure, or anything make the computer turn off, it will remember where it was before it did. So my guess is, similar to the issue with certain pins you mention, this could maybe be solved by disabling the Safe Sleep feature.

[mrwolff]

I was thinking maybe the best way to see if this is the case would be to check it with a multi meter on the lines that they soldered on jkkmobile's site. See what is running through it before sleep and then after? Maybe it really is cutting power to the drive?

[UnaClocker]

Originally Posted by zardoz42

I think it is more along the line of OS X's Safe Sleep feature. Somewhat like Windows hibernation, where the state of teh computer is saved to memory, so if the battery is taken out, a power-failure, or anything make the computer turn off, it will remember where it was before it did. So my guess is, similar to the issue with certain pins you mention, this could maybe be solved by disabling the Safe Sleep feature.

Yeah, We've already tried that. It's a pretty simple command you type into the Terminal.. It was tried and made no difference to the problem. It was a good theory though.

[Viscaria]

IIRC there were reports on the insanelymac thread about the mini that sleep fails even if the mini boots from an external USB drive, so I don't think this will help.

[mypup]

I can confirm that for me sleep will not work even from an external hard drive.

[Rekutyn]

I'm hoping battery life will be acceptable with sleep mode disabled and just using InsomniaX to turn the LCD off when closed. Does anyone have numbers?

I'm still waiting on my unit and hope to get OS X running well enough to be my little road warrior.
Failing that, I'll be sending it back. Maybe by the time it arrives the scene will have figured the sleep problem out? I'm sure more units in more "hackers" hands = better chances of success. Dell needs stick the whip to their production facility.

[UnaClocker]

You do not need InsomniaX, there is a command in one of the threads here (if someone has it handy, this would be a good thread to post it in). No need for an extra app running taking up resources. And yeah, when you shut the lid after disabling sleep with that command, the screen turns off, which might help battery life some.