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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Help!:- Battery Backed up clock not found
Keywords: Battery,Clock,dead
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Date: 16 Jan 90 16:26:24 GMT
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nealet@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Neale Type) writes:


}Hello tech wizards... Can anyone tell me whats up with my battery backed up    
}clock, which until recently was working.. Then one day last week as my machine
}was booting i got the message :            
}'Battery backup up clock not found'

This is a bug in the 1.3 version of SetClock.  If you can find your 1.2
disks, you'll find that "setclock reset" will make your "not found"
problem go away.  If you don't have that, I have a little utility I can
send you that'll fix the problem, also.

The trouble is that the clock's internal registers have some kind of
consistency check [is it a parity check?]... in any event, if a program
goes wild it can write trash into the clock's internal registers.  Then
you get a "not found" error because setclock detects the error when it
tries to touch the clock.  This is all well and good except for one
tiny bug: in 1.3, setclock ALWAYS consistentcy-checks the clock (and so
can't get far enough to do the 'reset' that would fix things up).

 /Bernie\

ps, is this [or should it be] in the list of "commonly asked questions"? /b\