> We have an Acutime 2000, which has pretty much just worked since we bought > it in 2005. We haven't felt the urge to do anything to the firmware, and > I've no idea what it's running -- whatever was current at the time.
Just looking at the bug fixes between 7.02 and 7.12, I thought it was a good idea to upgrade... now I regret it :( hence my request from anyone to get 7.10 firmware again. > Have you tried running the (Windows-only?) configuration tool? What does it > say about the acutime? Remember to run it on the *other* RS232 port on the > bottom-end converter box from the one you normally connect ntpd to. Yeha -- everything is working correctly, both ports are giving data. > Have you tried running the daemon in debugging mode, per the driver29.html > page? What does that say? We found that quite useful on the one occasion > where we had any problem with our unit. I still get clk_noreply... :( > The only occasion that I recall having any problems at all was when we > replaced the linux host with a faster machine, and we came to the > conclusion that either the serial hardware was "different" or the new box > was simply now pulsing the timestamp-me line too quickly. As a quick hack > workaround I simply duplicated the two ioctl()s in the driver which toggled > the relevant control line. It might be worth checking whether there's > anything in the code like that... I have been leant a Serial Port Analyser.. HP4925A I can see the pulse per second coming into the unit, and I can see the data on the screen. When I run palisade_monitor or tsipchat or anything, the whole thing comes to life, both DTE and DCE all go green, and I can see packet flow in both directions... however when ntp is running, it appears the comm port does not 'become active' like it does when running tsipchat or palisade_monitor, or anything like that.. And all I can see in inbound RD light blink green. When I run palisade_monitor.exe and select Port A and select View/Diagnostics and click Update, I can see RTS (on DTE side) and CTS (On DCE side) go from green to red. When I click up the update button, I can see the green link blink, but cant see the output packets on the analyser.. I will keep looking, but if anyone else has experience with the HP analyser, and used one to diagnose problems, please let me know too :) _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
