Re: Clock running slow

To: James Tappin <james@tappin.me.uk>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Clock running slow
From: Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:19:04 -0800
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At 07:03 AM 12/05/02 +0000, James Tappin wrote:
>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.

Yes it does.  The machine is used for burning CDs and they are ide-scsi.

Can you recommend a way to test this?  Any work-arounds?

Time is not critical on this machine -- I suppose I could just crontab
ntpdate.

Thanks James,

Hum... So, how does cron keep from running things twice if the clock gets
set back before the cron period?

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Bill Moseley
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