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- From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon)
- Subject: Re: CMOS getting mangled ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.032455.27285@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
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- References: <1993Jan11.151851.23665@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:24:55 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1993Jan11.151851.23665@athena.mit.edu> acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook) writes:
- >I've been running SLS v.98pl5 for a while, and (almost) everything is
- >peachy-keen, except for the fact that Linux has the annoying habbit of
- >thrashing my CMOS for time to time. It seems like every other time the
- >time and date get fried, and occasionally the disk info is lost. Very
- >strange. I've never had this problem running any dos stuff. It looks
- >like the clock is just reset, it comes up jan 1, 1980.
-
- Hmmm ... That's interesting, because something similar is happening to
- my Gateway 486/33C, too, but up to now I never linked it to linux.
- (... and it still may have nothing to do with it until I hear about more
- similar coincidences).
-
- Lately I have noticed some erratic behavior with my A: drive while in
- DOS 5. I would try to format a 1.2Mb floppy in it with the usual
- command lines options (/u /f:1.2) and it would be refused with a message
- saying something about those parameters not matching the drive. This is
- new, because those params always used to work before (meaning
- unconditional formatting of a 1.2 Mb floppy). What I discovered,
- however, that all I needed to fix this problem was to make a cold boot
- with the reset button.
-
- Reading your post makes me think of the circumstances when these things
- were happening and it looks like it might have been when I used the floppy
- drive in linux and later rebooted (via warm boot) into DOS-5 to format
- some floppy. I thought that recent erratic behavior may have been due
- to my drive slowly going south, but perhaps there is something else to
- this. (I hope I'm not going to be eaten alive for this comment again!
- ;-) Maybe somebody more knowledgeable can look into it.
- I am going to watch this better from now on, because it may have been
- happening when I tried to format after a RAWRITE.
-
- Joe Pannon
-