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[ts-7000] Re: Cannot set or synchronize the RTC with Hwclock on TS-7800

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Cannot set or synchronize the RTC with Hwclock on TS-7800
From: "zheng_zhou_mail" <>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:23:59 -0000
--- In  "Michael Schmidt" <> wrote:
>
> 
> On Wed, October 31, 2007 11:55 am, zheng_zhou_mail wrote:
> > Hi,
> >      I just bought TS-7800 with the Debian release 3.1 on a 512MB SD
> > card. After booting up, the RTC always gives a wrong time:"Sun Oct 25
> > 15:12:14 1925". I tried to reset the system time and HW clock as
> > typical procedure through a 'CuteCom' terminal:
> >      -Setting the system time with 'date 103110302007'. It Works!
> >      -Setting the HW clock with 'hwclock --systohc',
> >       then using 'hwclock --show' to check its status. However, the
> > system response a message:
> > "The Hardware Clock registers contain values that are either invalid
> > (e.g. 50th day of month) or beyond the range we can handle (e.g. Year
> > 2095)."
> >      I have tried several times with different hwclock's options
> > already, but got the same result. I dumped the /driver/rtc below,
> > which looks missing a lot info, such as periodic-IRQ, -freq, etc. Is
> > there any clue here to fix the hwclock problem on TS-7800? Please let
> > me if you have any suggestion. Thanks.
> >
> > Zheng
> 
> The RTC on the 7800 cannot be accessed through the normal /dev/rtc
> mechanism, as there are problems with the new RTC abstraction in 2.6 on
> the ARM architecture. A special utility "rtc7800" was written to
transfer
> time between the RTC and system time.  The "-s" option saves system time
> to the RTC, and no option transfers RTC time to system time.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael
>

Hi Michael,
    Thanks for your quick reply. As your suggested, I localized the
/usr/local/bin/rtc7800, and tried 'rtc7800 -s'. However, It doesn't
work, and only printed out a message, "TS-7800 RTC not detected". The
status of rtc7800 is attached below. Please check if it is a right
version. Thanks.

Zheng
-----------------------------------------
#ls -alt /usr/local/bin/rtc7800
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 11134 Jan  1  2000 /usr/local/bin/rtc7800*

#file /usr/local/bin/rtc7800
/usr/local/bin/rtc7800: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1
(ARM), for GNU/Linux 2.4.3, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not
stripped
-----------------------------------------



 
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