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Date:      Wed, 15 May 1996 21:55:22 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@sci.fi>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CMOS checksum brokedness and turbo being switched off
Message-ID:  <Pine.sol.3.90.960515215419.7026A-100000@borg>
In-Reply-To: <199605151801.LAA14978@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Wed, 15 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Garrett Wollman made it so you could touch a file in /etc and fix it
> so it would not mess with the CMOS (blowing the time information is
> probably what kills your checksum and blowing the DST information
> is probably what kills the turbo mode).

 /etc/wall_cmos_clock ? Putting that there doesn't seem to have an effect.

> FYI: it's a bad design that steals clock bits from the CMOS to use in
> software modes; your motherboard is violating the specs.

 It's by Nokia, that's what they're all about (-; The BIOS copyright is 
from 1991.

--
'Good-bye and hello, as always'



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