Re: 164sx and clock weirdness?

["Maurice W. Hilarius" <harddata bigfoot com>]

With regards to your message at 05:50 PM 03-07-98 -0800, Ladislav Zejda.
Where you stated:
>> I am pretty sure this is a hardware problem, because /sbin/clock is _also_
>> running double speed, and as far as I know, there's no humanly possible
>> way to "speed up" RTC chip in software.
>
> I am not sure what you exactly mean by this. For me CMOS clock are always OK
>and the command "/sbin/clock -aAu" sets the kernel clock right in  the  sense
>that the date and time is updated correctly from CMOS, but it still goes twi-
>ce as fast. But I think /sbin/clock is still somehow broken (yes,  I  do  run
>the updated /sbin/clock from gatekeeper as Jay posted several weeks ago) sin-
>ce many runs of "/sbin/clock -rAu" gives wrong date, time and year  in  about
>one of 30 cases. Actually this is happening even on "164LX" machine I have at
>school.
>
> Cheers,
Well, $.02 worth:
This only seems to happen on SOME 164SX boards. I saw one that did it, and
the same thing was happening in NT. I strongly suspect this is a hardware
problem..



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