Re: clock drift with two Promise Ultra133 TX2 (PDC 20269) cards

[Bill Davidsen]

Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 11:53, Drew Winstel wrote:
>
> > I think I know what the problem is.
> >
> > In include/linux/libata.h, make sure the preprocessor declarations are as 
> > follows.  I think the defaults have ATA_ENABLE_PATA undefined.
> >
> > #define ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI        /* undefine to disable ATAPI support */
> > #define ATA_ENABLE_PATA          /* define to enable PATA support in some
> >                                 * low-level drivers */
>
>
> Thanks, now it loads correctly. Unfortunately the clock drift still occurs
> with pata_pdc2027x. I'm guessing here, but can clock drift have anything
> to do with IRQs? Also, is it normal to see errors in /proc/interrupt?

Are you by chance running ntpd? And have you checked to see if it dies 
as soon as it starts? There's a bug in the ntp M/L wrt execstack.

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