On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:18:14AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi all, > > "Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:44:36 +0100", "Geert Stappers" > "Re: SATA on Dell PowerEdge SC420 & hwclock" > >> > If you know a reason about this strange behavior, please let me know. > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277298 > > Thanks. It seems that kernel problem in specific environment, > but in d-i, some "workaround" to avoid such situation should > be provieded for users if we can. A workaround is provided in that bugreport. And de "specific environment" is the hardware. (hardware is allowed to be different) > Anyway I'll read it carefully later, again. Okay, please read it with "how to trigger the workaround" in mind. > > > >> I've seen this before on an IBM Thinkcentre. A firmware upgrade solved it. > > > >Are details about that "firmware upgrade" available? > > It's interesting. > > But now we cannot get any updated firmware from dell. > see http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&SystemID=PWE_420SC&os=BIOSA&osl=en&deviceid=159&devlib=1&category=1&releaseid=R84250 > It is just "Initial Release", no updates are inclued in it. Besides that, hwclock works without a BIOS update. (so no need to update BIOS) Cheers Geert Stappers
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