[SPARCbook] SPARCBook2: TOD clock not initialized

[Robert F. Schaefer]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Schmittlein" <jschmittlein at amcc.com>
To: "For owners of Tadpole/RDI's SPARCbook series of portable Sun-compatible
computer systems." <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] SPARCBook2: TOD clock not initialized
>
> Finally, if I recall correctly the nvram problem doesn't prevent the
> machine from booting.  If it's on a network you can set the data after
> booting with rdate.  In this way, the OS will take a post Y2K date.  If
> you try to set the date from the command like, you're limited to pre Y2K
> dates with sunos 4.1.3.  However, the machine will forget the time/date
> on powerdown.

Huh.  I hadn't heard that it would take a current date at all-- the
information I came across made it sound like the nvram couldn't correctly
store anything past Y2K.  Do you know if it will keep the current time &
date through a suspend?

>
> Joe

Bob