Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:58:51 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mcclock funnies... Message-ID: <20010205235851.A548@cicely5.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102051156110.2887-100000@zeppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:56:59AM -0800 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102051156110.2887-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:56:59AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> Has anyone but me been having amusements with reads from the mostek clock chip
> coming up as zero (instead of 01), causing the system to whine about date
> being off by 365 days?
Do you mean this:
[...]
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #3: Sun Jan 28 10:09:35 CET 2001
ticso@cicely9.cicely.de:/var/d8/src-2001-01-26/src/sys/compile/CICELY9
EB164
Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz, 500MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
CPU: EV56 (21164A) major=7 minor=2 extensions=0x1<BWX>
OSF PAL rev: 0x1000800020117
[...]
mcclock0: <MC146818A real time clock> at port 0x70-0x71 on isa0
[...]
WARNING: clock lost 365 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
[...]
FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #2: Wed Jul 19 11:56:48 CEST 2000
bernd@srv1.cosmo-project.de:/usr/src-2000-07-08/src/sys/compile/SRV1
EB164
Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz, 500MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
CPU: EV56 (21164A) major=7 minor=2 extensions=0x1<BWX>
OSF PAL rev: 0x1000800020117
[...]
mcclock0: <MC146818A real time clock> at port 0x70-0x71 on isa0
[...]
WARNING: clock lost 365 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
These are on 2 different PC164 Systems with different FreeBSD versions.
Both were never powered off more than some minutes.
And my AXPpci33 (5 days sounds realistic):
[...]
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #6: Sun Nov 26 20:24:29 CET 2000
ticso@cicely9.cicely.de:/var/d8/src-2000-11-20/src/sys/compile/CICELY10
DEC AXPpci
Alpha PC AXPpci33, 166MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
CPU: LCA Family major=4 minor=2
OSF PAL rev: 0x100090002012d
[...]
mcclock0: <MC146818A real time clock> at port 0x70-0x71 on isa0
[...]
WARNING: clock gained 5 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
For my AXPpci33 I've also found 365 days with the same kernel in the syslog.
Maybe it only happens when the system is only down for a short time.
--
B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de
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