On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 06:46:50PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:32:43AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > > Maybe it's because the CD-R is so fast? "Let's do the time warp again!" > > > > > > This is why I installed rdate, I think it is b/c it is so processor > > > intensive (CD-R). I didn't read the entire previous thread on ntp, > > > but rdate at least does the trick for my single user system. > > > > Just seems really odd. Interrupts still happen, right? And to drop 50 > > seconds in 4 minutes just doesn't seem like a matter of the machine being > > too busy to keep time. > > The stupid driver might cli interrupts for long periods of time > which would cause time interrupts to get missed especially if > it disables the interrupts for more than 1/18th (or something > like that - well, this is from my old "MSDOS" memory days > so the number is probably different now) of a second then > you could have two interrupts happen when the interrupts > are disabled and there is the time warp. Interrupts > should never get disabled for that long. It's a bug if you > ask me....
I'd say this is the sort of thing people mean when people say 'IDE sucks!'; the CPU has to babysit the burner through the entire process... -rob
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