On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 08:00:53PM +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> The two outputs I sent were with 4.0.90f. When I run 4.0.92c, ntpd is not
> able to get any accurate data from the device whereas 4.0.90f does.
>
> I get lots of these in /var/log/messages and it doesn't sync at all.
> -=-=-
> Mar 6 14:02:25 tara ntpd[7600]: parse: convert_rawdcf: INCOMPLETE DATA -
> time code only has 3 bits
> Mar 6 14:02:29 tara ntpd[7600]: parse: convert_rawdcf: INCOMPLETE DATA -
> time code only has 2 bits
It's typical from bad parity setting on your serial port.
Try a stty on that port; I bet it will show that PARENB is set.
Unset it and things should go back to normal.
> Maybe it is a problem with 4.0.92c...
Yes, it's a problem with most of the ntpd 4.0.9x series. There's
absolutely no reason why you should enable PARENB for a raw DCF77
driver; yet that's what ntpd's configure does, at least under
FreeBSD.
I sent a bug report to the ntpd team a while ago but haven't heard
from them.
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