RE: [cobalt-developers] re: Date Time Settings Not Being Preserve d

["Gilbert, Mark" <MGilbert@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tim:

Thanks for the program.  Could you give me some information on what this
will do?

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Hockin [mailto:thockin@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 7:54 PM
> To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-developers] re: Date Time Settings Not Being 
> Preserved
> 
> 
> Peter Ball wrote:
> > 
> > I think it's a bug in the clock chip.
> > 
> > 1 of our RAQ4's loses over an hour per day.
> > 
> > I emailed Cobalt and they didn't want to know about it, as 
> it was over 30
> > days since we bought the box.
> > Terrible service as usual, but what can I do being 10,000KM away
> 
> This should be in the knowledge base, and I thought it was.  Do this:
> 
> cat /proc/rtc.  If you see 24hr : no, compile and run the attached
> program on your raq.  Then re-set the time.
> 
> > I manage several Cobalt RAQ4 servers, and have noticed that 
> the date and
> > time settings on the server don't always remain correct 
> over time.  We'll
> > correct the date and time, leave the server alone for a 
> month, at which
> > point discover that the date is now off by a day or more.  
> We have nailed
> > down a pattern to it yet (we've had some servers both lose 
> time and some
> > that gain it), and it doesn't happen with all of our 
> servers.  Outside of
> > people intentionally changing the date and time, any ideas 
> as to what may be
> > causing this?
> 
> -- 
> Tim Hockin
> Systems Software Engineer
> Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
> thockin@xxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> 
> /* 
>  * gcc -O2 mfg-fix-rtc.c -o mfg-fix-rtc
>  * ./mfg-fix-rtc 
>  */
> 
> /* ------------------ mfg-fix-rtc.c ------------------*/
> /* original by Tim Hockin, Cobalt Networks            */
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/io.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>         unsigned char tmp;
> 
>         if (ioperm(0x70, 2, 1)) {
>                 perror("ioperm");
>                 return 2;
>         }
> 
>         outb(0xb, 0x70);
>         tmp = inb(0x71);
>         outb(tmp | 0x80, 0x71);
> 
>         outb(0xa, 0x70);
>         outb(0x26, 0x71);
> 
>         outb(0xb, 0x70);
>         outb(0x2, 0x71);
> 
>         outb(0xb, 0x70);
>         tmp = inb(0x71);
>         outb(tmp & ~0x80, 0x71);
> 
>         return 0;
> }
> /* ------------------ mfg-fix-rtc.c ------------------ */
> 
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