I have a similar immediate wakeup issue: [ 7951.156318] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done. [ 7951.170491] PM: Preparing system for mem sleep [ 7951.186366] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.01 seconds) done. [ 7951.200152] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.01 seconds) done. [ 7951.216109] PM: Entering mem sleep [ 7951.216130] Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug) [ 7951.216677] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk [ 7951.216854] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [ 7951.216857] ata1.00: failed command: STANDBY IMMEDIATE [ 7951.216864] ata1.00: cmd e0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 [ 7951.216864] res 51/04:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x1 (device error) [ 7951.216865] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 7951.216867] ata1.00: error: { ABRT } [ 7951.216876] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [ 7951.216894] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] START_STOP FAILED [ 7951.216896] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] [ 7951.216897] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 7951.216899] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] [ 7951.216900] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor] [ 7951.216903] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] [ 7951.216905] Add. Sense: No additional sense information [ 7951.216916] dpm_run_callback(): scsi_bus_suspend+0x0/0x20 returns 134217730 [ 7951.216920] PM: Device 0:0:0:0 failed to suspend: error 134217730 [ 7951.216921] PM: Some devices failed to suspend [ 7951.476689] PM: resume of devices complete after 259.763 msecs [ 7951.476831] PM: resume devices took 0.260 seconds [ 7951.476884] PM: Finishing wakeup. This is an old old Compaq V2000 with IDE. I an using an IDE to SD converter to have a "flash drive" of sorts. (slow, but stable!) Relevant ATA startup. I am running the OS from what it thinks is a "removable" disk. [ 2.062741] scsi0 : pata_atiixp [ 2.066210] scsi1 : pata_atiixp [ 2.067047] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x8410 irq 14 [ 2.067050] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x8418 irq 15 [ 2.096151] ssb: Found chip with id 0x4318, rev 0x02 and package 0x02 [ 2.096166] ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x0D, vendor 0x4243) [ 2.096176] ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x09, vendor 0x4243) [ 2.096185] ssb: Core 2 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x0C, vendor 0x4243) [ 2.096195] ssb: Core 3 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x07, vendor 0x4243) [ 2.136166] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:05:02.0 [ 2.229220] ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-4244N, 1.02, max MWDMA2 [ 2.229325] ata1.00: CFA: Memory Card Adapter, 67281306, max UDMA/66 [ 2.229328] ata1.00: 63272960 sectors, multi 0: LBA [ 2.229333] ata1.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable [ 2.236726] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 [ 2.236875] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Memory Card Adap 6728 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 2.237165] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 63272960 512-byte logical blocks: (32.3 GB/30.1 GiB) [ 2.237216] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 2.237220] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 2.237244] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 2.237361] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 [ 2.241462] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > [ 2.241899] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk