apm problems on thinkpad

[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