> 
> > how much do your raq1 clocks differ per month?
> 
> per month?  I wouldn't know, I don't let them go that long, they drift ~40.9
> seconds every 5 minutes.  Sounds like this is fixed in -current, I'll
> probably give that a shot as soon as I have time.

that's a drastic drift and i experience it here, too

in your first answer to my post you wrote 
> Just don't run fdisk on any cobalt that has its DMA disabled

is this really related ? fdisk causes a panic on every cobalt raq and qube
where dma support ist turned off ?