Crazy clock

[Aleksander Rozman - Andy]

At 4.12.2004, Atte Peltomaki wrote:
DragonFlyBSD doesn't seem to be able to keep the date, and it has been
so for quite a while now. Is there a fix in horizon, or should I set up
a cronjob for ntpdate that runs every minute? >:)
-Atte


Hi !

I am quite new to DragonFly, but I would like to mention that I had the 
same problem on normal FreeBSD. Then I tracked problem to hardware that was 
not recognized by system. I inserted special SCC card (used for AX.25 - 
Netham) into my computer and clock started going very fast. This card has 
no driver under FreeBSD, and this caused the problem. I had the same 
problem on one old computer with weird chipset, time was going very fast. 
There I just had to set correct chipset for motherboard and everything was 
fine...

I hope this will help a little.

Andy

P.S.: Another comment on SCC card, it had it's own "clock" (it had some 
time crystals on it, I don't know how they are named in english) so maybe 
that was problem.

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