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:
root@NAS:~/>uname -a
Linux NAS 2.6.26-1-orion5x #1 Thu Sep 11 13:28:52 UTC 2008 armv5tel GNU/Linux
root@NAS:~/>hwclock --systohc
Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
root@NAS:~/>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
root@NAS:~?>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)
root@NAS:~/>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