Re: more bugs

[Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 11:17:11PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote:
> > > > > date is in year 2018
> > > > Works fine on my AS200 -- be specific.  What system, kernel?
> > > system: udb / multia, kernel: 2.0.34, milo: 
> > My AS200 has a fubar date in SRM, but works under Linux.  Have you
> > tried to set the time under Linux, and then used "hwclock --systohc"?
> > If you keep your clock set to UTC, add "--utc" to that command.
> that is the problem: hwclock & cat /dev/rtc give the error
> 	Operation not supported by device
> i have 
> 	crw-rw----   1 root     root      10, 135 Jul 17  2018 /dev/rtc
> which should be correct. hm.

You need a kernel with enhanced RTC support compiled in.

Also, I just tried superformat.  It does work.  However the Alpha thinks
you have a 2.88 mb floppy drive.  To format a 1.44 mb floppy, do this:

superformat /dev/fd0h1440

Thanks

Jeff