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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