biking with a sleeping laptop?

[Scott J. Henson]

Neil McLeod wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Ubuntu on an IBM Thinkpad T42. Is it safe to suspend the
> computer and then go biking with the laptop in my backpack, or can
> this cause damage?

Don't take this as a guarantee, but, one of my friends had one and did
just that and never had a problem.  I'm pretty sure that when you
suspend a laptop the heads on the drive are parked so its just like it
was off. 

-- 
Scott Henson
LCSEE Systems Staff
WVU MAE Undergraduate
Ubuntu User