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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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