IBM Vectra/xntpd/BIOS weirdness.

["C. Bensend" <benny@bennyvision.com>]

Hey folks,

	I recently purchased a low-end machine for testing
purposes (P133, 24M RAM).  After an FTP install of OpenBSD
2.8, it is happy.

	I did the normal post-install that I like (bash, GNU
stuff, xntpd), and after a while (maybe 20-30 minutes, right
around the time xntpd would begin to sync the system clock),
I got the following in /var/log/messages:

Jan 11 00:39:16 hostname /bsd: clock: Unknown CMOS layout

	Disclaimer:  I'm only assuming xntpd triggered this,
I don't know for sure.  It just seems suspicious that this
machine was up for 45 minutes with no such messages, _before_
I installed xntpd and rebooted.  My ntp.conf is set to use my
local NTP server (stratum 3).

	This machine is an HP Vectra VL, Series 4, 5/133.  The
BIOS is version gt.07.23.24, the latest that HP offers on their
website.  I'm again assuming that because of this error, the
kernel is unable to adjust the CMOS hardware clock?  This is
the stock GENERIC kernel.

	The dmesg follows my .sig, for those that are
interested.  Please note - this is NOT a critical thing.  This
is a test machine, this is more curiousity than anything.  I
am not concerned with the system clock.

As it's not a critical system, I'd just appreciate insight into
this error.  As I said, I'm just curious.

Benny


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System's dmesg:

OpenBSD 2.8 (GENERIC) #399: Mon Nov  6 10:59:23 MST 2000
    deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: F00F bug workaround installed
cpu0: Intel Pentium (P54C) ("GenuineIntel" 586-class) 133 MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8
real mem  = 24752128 (24172K)
avail mem = 17911808 (17492K)
using 327 buffers containing 1339392 bytes (1308K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(01) BIOS, date 06/27/97, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
0xf849d
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.1 (BIOS mgmt disabled)
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 found at 0xf83b0[0x920]
pcibios0: PCI BIOS has 5 Interrupt Routing table entries
pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82437FX (Triton)" rev 0x02
"S3 Trio32/64" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 not configured
pcib0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "Intel 82371FB (Triton) PCI-ISA" rev 0x02
pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "Intel 82371FB (Triton) IDE" rev 0x02:
DMA, ch
annel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM1280A>
wd0: can use 32-bit, PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 1222MB, 2484 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 2503872
sectors
pciide0: channel 0 interrupting at irq 14
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
we1 at isa0 port 0x300/32 iomem 0xcc000/16384 irq 10: WD8013WC (16-bit)
we1: address 00:00:c0:6a:1f:5e
eg0: can't map I/O space
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
vt0 at isa0 port 0x60/16 irq 1: vga 80 col, color, 8 scr, mf2-kbd
pms0 at vt0 irq 12
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask 4040 netmask 4440 ttymask 54c2
pctr: 586-class performance counters and user-level cycle counter enabled
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
clock: unknown CMOS layout