Re: probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost

[Alan Cox]

> The problem: especially when copying from a disk to another one (I have
> cloned /dev/hda to /dev/hdc, testing both dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc and
> cp -a /dev/hdaN /devc/hdcN) a get _a_lot_ of messages like this one:
> 
> probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a
> VIA686a motherboard.
> probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration.
> 
> Is it dangerous ? Any way to get rid of this phenomemon (maintaining the
> hardware...)?

Its harmless. When we detect this we restore the state of the chip
correctly. If anything I should kill the printk but I'd still like to 
figure the precise errata issue out