on 3/13/2000 1:12 AM, Donald Lee at donlee_ppc@icompute.com wrote:
> 
> I'm now trying to run on a PowerCenter 132, and its clock is off by about
> an hour a day (?).  NTP seems to be overwhelmed by the error,
> but I'm also investigating the kernel support, and it seems not
> to be there.
> 
> It appears that the primary problem with the clock skew is that the
> Open Firmware is giving a bad number for the timebase, but I was
> hoping that ntpd could help me out.
> 
> Ideas anyone?

I don't know why, but I can say my PowerCenter Pro 180 has a very similar
problem.  I always have a major clock skew (several hours).  I had a similar
problem when I ran mklinux, and I was told then that my open firmware
reported the wrong bus speed ( 40mhz instead of 60mhz).

    -andy