HI All, I'm having a problems with the Real Time Clock on my QNAP TS-209 pro II. /sbin/hwclock --systohc --localtime hangs the system for approx 15 mins before timing out on both boot/shutdown.
I experience the same problem with hwclock with the --directisa switch. I found that other users on ubuntu solved the above problem using that switch. Some info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/>uname -a Linux NAS 2.6.26-1-orion5x #1 Thu Sep 11 13:28:52 UTC 2008 armv5tel GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/>hwclock --systohc Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/>hwclock --debug hwclock from util-linux-ng 2.13.1.1 Using /dev interface to clock. Last drift adjustment done at 1217000000 seconds after 1969 Last calibration done at 1217000000 seconds after 1969 Hardware clock is on UTC time Assuming hardware clock is kept in UTC time. Waiting for clock tick... /dev/rtc does not have interrupt functions. Waiting in loop for time from /dev/rtc to change Timed out waiting for time change. ...got clock tick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~?>dmesg | grep rtc [42949375.800000] rtc-s35390a 0-0030: rtc core: registered rtc-s35390a as rtc0 [42949375.920000] rtc-s35390a 0-0030: setting system clock to 2008-09-22 19:32:40 UTC (1222111960) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/>lsmod Module Size Used by ipv6 287604 16 loop 14092 0 evdev 8672 0 ehci_hcd 32044 0 usbcore 127740 2 ehci_hcd mv643xx_eth 20772 0 mii 5504 1 mv643xx_eth gpio_keys 3264 0 ext3 122472 2 jbd 45268 1 ext3 mbcache 7936 1 ext3 raid1 21184 3 md_mod 80212 4 raid1 sd_mod 25200 8 sata_mv 24492 6 libata 153852 1 sata_mv scsi_mod 149892 2 sd_mod,libata Notice no rtc is listed - modprobe rtc returns FATAL: Module rtc not found. Any idea on this? Have i simply got a hardware problem or am i missing something really obvious?? There is something posted in this bug report about setting ACPI to off in the kernel boot parameters. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277298 But i'm reluctant to do this, mostly because I don' know how just yet, but also because no other users have reported this problem on this architecture afaik. Thanks in advance for any comments/help. -Neil
