Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 15:23:09 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invalid time in real time clock Message-ID: <lclnst$1fu$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <lcj2jj$2bu$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <lcjpn2$1a07$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
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Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote: > > atrtc0: WARNING: Battery failure indication > > Invalid time in real time clock. > > Check and reset the date immediately! > > > > Incongruously, the RTC time is actually correct. Well, off by a > > minute or so. Clearly the new battery is good. > > Turns out I misunderstood this. I thought the system time was still > set from the RTC despite the warning. It isn't. Still, booting into the BIOS shows that the RTC keeps up, so it shouldn't be a battery problem. I cleared the RTC memory, set the date and time in the BIOS again, but I still get the warning and FreeBSD ignores the RTC. It looks like the RTCSD_PWR bit is stuck and there is no way to reset it. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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