Ahhhh, the mist clears. That may be the source of my troubles some time back.
NTP _had_ been working flawlessly for many years, then all of a sudden it
stoped working properly on both of my machines. Exact symptoms that Bill is
describing.
Thinking back I had started using the ide-scsi on both machines at various
points in time due to upgraded cd-rom writer drives. I had never made the
association that that could have been a cause for the system clock to be
running slow.
I was unable to find the cause at the time.
Cheers
David
> On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 21:16:23 -0800
> Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I setup a machine for a friend and every few days I ssh in to see how
> > things look. Twice now I have found the date about twenty minutes
> > behind.
>
> Does the machine have a SCSI bus or a device running under ide-scsi? I
> have seen clocks run extremely slow (less than half speed) when using SCSI
> devices with disconnects disabled. NTP can fail to correct if the shift is
> too big.
>
> James
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