obrien@kcdev.UUCP (John Obrien x4089) (10/30/89)
I need some help. My 7300 recently quit keeping date and time. That is, when I do a shutdown and bring it back up again it's Jan 1, 12:01 all over again. Is this related to any program malfunction or just a dead battery? If it's the battery, how do I change it? I'm using 3.51. While I have your attention perhaps someone would be interested in my expeiriences of attaching an AT&T 7500S typewriter to the 7300/3B1. I bought it shortly after buying my 7300, at the company "sale" price of $299, with the intention of using it as a letter quality printer. Try as I might, and asking everyone who might know how to do it, including the "hot line", I was still unable to cable it as a printer. BUT in the many and futile attempts I suddenly found I was hooked up as a terminal and once I established that I needed a non-screen oriented .profile for the typewriter, I was able to log it on to the system and once logged on I could 'cat' files to tty000 for letter quality typeing and my problem was solved plus I had a terminal. One of the reasons for mentioning this is that there is now another 'sale' of 7500S's for AT&T employee's for the same price $299. Now $299 was not to bad for this machine 2-3 years ago, but I think it is about twice as high as it should be for the current state-of-art. So write or call the sales center and tell them what you think of their 'sales'. Frankly most of the employee sales can be bettered on the open market.
jcm@mtunb.ATT.COM (was-John McMillan) (10/30/89)
In article <912@kcdev.UUCP> obrien@kcdev.UUCP (John Obrien x4089) writes: > >I need some help. My 7300 recently quit keeping date and time. >That is, when I do a shutdown and bring it back up again it's >Jan 1, 12:01 all over again. Is this related to any program >malfunction or just a dead battery? If it's the battery, how do > I change it? I'm using 3.51. It's the battery. (I'm sure Lenny, Gil, Thad or someone else who's archived the instructions can E-mail them to you.) Note that the KERNEL would be happy to resume time from the date of the last ROOTDEV update -- i.e., the time the machine was last taken down. The line 'date -' in /etc/rc overrides this. _I_ view this as a design defect in date(1): 'date' can easily identify the clock battery's dead and that clock shouldn't be used for updating the time. If you know your battery's dead, I'd recommend commenting out that 'date -' line until you've replaced the battery. When you forget to set the date on boot, it is better to have your files sequentially dated -- but a day or two off -- than to have them ridiculously dated in mixed order. john mcmillan -- att!mtunb!jcm
res@cbnews.ATT.COM (Robert E. Stampfli) (10/31/89)
>> >>I need some help. My 7300 recently quit keeping date and time. >>That is, when I do a shutdown and bring it back up again it's >>Jan 1, 12:01 all over again. Is this related to any program >>malfunction or just a dead battery? If it's the battery, how do >> I change it? I'm using 3.51. > >It's the battery. (I'm sure Lenny, Gil, Thad or someone else who's >archived the instructions can E-mail them to you.) I am not so sure. I have a 7300 which has had a dead battery since the day it arrived. It has never lost its clock on a shutdown and reboot unless the power was removed for more than a few seconds. Maybe the original poster did not make himself clear, but I took the posting to imply that the power was not necessarily interrrupted. If this is true, it could indicate a defective clock calendar chip. I would suggest running the diagnostic disk part that specifically checks this component. BTW, thanks for the info on commenting out the "date -" entry. I will have to give that a try. (Actually, I have a replacement lithium cell, but just have not had any better reason to remove the motherboard and work on it. I view the lack of a battery backed-up clock is an annoyance, but a minor one.) -- Rob Stampfli att!cbnews!res (work) osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu!n8emr!kd8wk!res (home)