[Soekris] Net5501 internal clock running way too fast

[.Mike.]

Hi,

I noticed clock insubordination after about two, well maybe half a minute 
with my first 4801,

On the linux kernel I had to use throw a kernel flag clock=pit to calm down 
the time on all 4801's

ntpd still corrects drifts of about 1-2 seconds every hour or two, I 
personally don't like this as many things can happen in two seconds.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edwin Kremer" <edwin+soekris at xinu.nl>
To: "Michael Stilkerich" <mikey at lizzy.ath.cx>
Cc: <soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Soekris] Net5501 internal clock running way too fast


> Quoting Michael Stilkerich <mikey at lizzy.ath.cx> on Tue, Jul 24 2007 00:47 
> UTC+0200:
>
>> the hardware clock  of my net5501-70 is running about  10x faster than
>> real time passes. I can track  this in comBIOS by issuing 'time' every
>> other second.
>
> Similar thing here, although it seems  more like "at least 6x too fast":
> it runs appr. 3 minutes in 30 seconds real time.
> It also happens when the box is powered-off: if I set actual time in the
> BIOS, power-off immediately  and power-on again after half  an hour, the
> clock is hours ahead of time.
>
> If first  spotted this when I  noticed that the FreeBSD  10-seconds boot
> loader delay passed faster than I could interrupt it :-)
>
> System info:
>  comBIOS ver. 1.31m 20070606  Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering.
>  net5501
>  0512 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Edwin
>
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