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- From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: CMOS getting mangled ?
- Message-ID: <C0qr96.2Ft@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 12:41:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan11.151851.23665@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan12.032455.27285@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command
- Lines: 46
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- In article <1993Jan12.032455.27285@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
- >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
-
-
- I have seen postings regarding this for some time, always linked to
- 486 motherboards. Seems to be related to rebooting system. I always
- do "shutdown now", then hit reset button to reboot. Have NEVER had a
- problem. There have been virtually no postings on this for a few weeks,
- but I guess there is still a problem.
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