-------- In message <[email protected]>, Hal Mu rray writes: > >Steve Allen said: >> UCO/Lick knows that, even with the best available version of NTP, the sloppy >> (or even lack of) hardware clock on some motherboards means that some >> Windows systems cannot do better than 1 to 2 seconds. > >Are there really motherboards out there that are so badly broken than they >can't keep decent time?
I have met a couple of motherboards which were fundamentally broken in this area, mostly as result of stupid thermal design or close to fraudulent sourcing of components. Under UNIX+NTPD the result is either much larger than usual offsets or occational timesteps of 200-500msec magnitude. 99.9% of all designs work just fine. >Or is the problem that kernel software doesn't do the right thing with some >combination of features? In Windoes there is no "kernel software" to do the right thing in the first place. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
