On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Peter Teichmann wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 20. April 2005 19:48 schrieb David Joy:[snip]I have just installed Debian on a StrongARM RiscPC and I have noticed that the System Time seems to lose a second or more every minute. So after a few hours it is hopelessly wrong.Is this a known problem? Is there anything I can do about it?
Could you have a look with hdparm if the unmaskirq flag is set for your harddisk/cdrom? If not, this could be the cause because it might be that timer interrupts are lost during disk transfers. You can try to set the flag then and see if it helps.
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Thanks for the suggestion. unmaskirq wasn't set on the hard disk, but I have tried setting it to 1 and the clock still loses time, unfortunately.
On an entirely unrelated note, do you know if it is possible to get DMA working on a RiscPC?
David
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