Re: 164sx and clock weirdness?

[Jason Duerstock <jason sdi cluephone com>]

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Maurice W. Hilarius wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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..

Any opinions from anyone at Digital?  Is this something I should pursue
with the company I bought the system from, or it is something fixable
through software?

Jason