Re: Clock error on bootup - NSLU2

[Donald T Hayford <don%donhayford.com@localhost>]

Steve Woodford wrote:
> On Saturday 22 March 2008 14:13:38 Donald T Hayford wrote:
>   
> > i X1205
> > Z
> > S574BB.
> >     
>
> Same part. You may well have a hardware fault.
>   
Poking around a bit more, I see earlier in the boot process (I added 
some line feeds for emphasis):

clock: hz=100 stathz=0 profhz=0
ixp425_intr_establish(irq=5, ipl=2, func=c03cfca0, arg=00000000)
iic0 at slugiic0: I2C bus

xrtc0 at iic0 addr 0x6f: Xicor X1226 Real-time Clock/NVRAM

ixp425_intr_establish(irq=22, ipl=1, func=c03d5700, arg=c110ed00)
[...snip...]
xrtc0: xrtc_clock_read: failed to read rtc at 0x0
xrtc0: xrtc_clock_read: failed to read rtc at 0x0
WARNING: preposterous TOD clock time
WARNING: using filesystem time
WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!

So it appears to be talking to the chip.  ntpdate doesn't seem to be 
complaining about anything.  I think it's curious that the first xrtc0 
line has addr=0x6f (which I think is correct), while the "failed to 
read" lines appear to be using addr=0x0.

But, other than having to use ntpdate (which I'd probably do anyway, 
since the RTC isn't that accurate), it isn't that big of a problem.

Thanks,
Don