[ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-10 Thread Mark C. Stephens
Hi All, and probably Dave specifically, I have tried everything with my PPS, inverting it in hardware, in software (flag2 1) I just can't get PPS tally to come on. Today, I restarted and noticed: refclock_params: time_pps_setparams: Unknown error: 45 in event log. Here is the usual: Config:

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-10 Thread Mark C. Stephens
So.. I am replying to my own posts too.. Started ntpd in debug and seeing a lot of GPS_NMEA(1) PPS_RELATE_NONE >From the source: * The function returns PPS_RELATE_NONE (0) if no PPS edge correlation * can be fixed; PPS_RELATE_EDGE (1) when a PPS edge could be fixed, but * the distance to th

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-10 Thread David J Taylor
So.. I am replying to my own posts too.. Started ntpd in debug and seeing a lot of GPS_NMEA(1) PPS_RELATE_NONE From the source: * The function returns PPS_RELATE_NONE (0) if no PPS edge correlation * can be fixed; PPS_RELATE_EDGE (1) when a PPS edge could be fixed, but * the distance to th

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-10 Thread David J Taylor
keys "C:\Program Files\NTP\etc\ntp.key" [] Many thanks, Mark Mark, it's been my practice with Windows Vista and Windows-7 to install NTP outside the \Program Files\ tree, as the user needs to edit files in the \NTP\ tree. I take it that you are aware with functions like directory virtualis

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-10 Thread Dave Hart
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:46, Mark C. Stephens wrote: > I have tried everything with my PPS, inverting it in hardware, in software > (flag2 1) > I just can't get PPS tally to come on. > > Today, I restarted and noticed: > refclock_params: time_pps_setparams: Unknown error: 45 > > server 127.127.

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-10 Thread Mark C. Stephens
if to test my software setup. Many thanks, Mark -Original Message- From: Dave Hart [mailto:daveh...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 11 February 2012 5:59 AM To: Mark C. Stephens Cc: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you! On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:46, M

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-10 Thread Mark C. Stephens
J Taylor [mailto:david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid] Sent: Saturday, 11 February 2012 3:58 AM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you! > keys "C:\Program Files\NTP\etc\ntp.key" [] > Many thanks, Mark Mark, it's been my practice with W

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-10 Thread Mark C. Stephens
y, 11 February 2012 3:45 AM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you! > So.. I am replying to my own posts too.. > > > > > Started ntpd in debug and seeing a lot of GPS_NMEA(1) PPS_RELATE_NONE > > >>From the source: > * The f

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-10 Thread unruh
On 2012-02-10, Mark C. Stephens wrote: > Hi All, and probably Dave specifically, > > > I have tried everything with my PPS, inverting it in hardware, in software > (flag2 1) I just can't get PPS tally to come on. > > Today, I restarted and noticed: > refclock_params: time_pps_setparams: Unknown e

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-10 Thread David J Taylor
"Mark C. Stephens" wrote in message news:4bde1132003994498b736b8017d15d10088f4...@exch2010.non-stop.com.au... Ah you mean the time2 -0.4886745895 figure? That's quite interesting how I got that, I averaged the 60 second offset sample over many days :) I am a Crazy man.. Cheers Dave :) If

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-10 Thread David J Taylor
I have found > vista abhorrent timekeepers, so I am running this particular guy on server 2003. But looking forward, I will have to one day, so thanks for the tip. It also explains the location of the PPSAPI, doesn't it :) Cheers Mark Mark, Vista and Windows-7 can be tamed, and I am seeing ab

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-11 Thread Dave Hart
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 06:26, David J Taylor wrote: > Vista and Windows-7 can be tamed, and I am seeing about 25 microseconds > averaged jitter on two Windows-7 stratum-1 servers right now (PCs Alta and > Stamsund).  This is not as good as the 2.5 microseconds averaged jitter on > the XP server,

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-11 Thread David J Taylor
http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/daily_ntp.html Alta's graph on that page is scaled inappropriately for its current performance level. Follow the link at the top of the page to the Alternative Presentation and you'll find a graph of alta with a more useful scale (albeit also a different style with

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-11 Thread Mark C. Stephens
nterested in photos of the guts? Many thanks, Mark -Original Message- From: David J Taylor [mailto:david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid] Sent: Saturday, 11 February 2012 5:17 PM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you! "Mark C. Stephe

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-11 Thread David J Taylor
"Mark C. Stephens" wrote in message news:4bde1132003994498b736b8017d15d10088f4...@exch2010.non-stop.com.au... Yes for sure, I have tidied it up, 3 stratum 1 servers and all the other baggage cleared. Excellent! Re your comment about comments: [] I didn't make any! However, a clean conf

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-11 Thread Mark C. Stephens
Apologies, Sometimes the threads get a little jumbled my end. What's a good email client with quoting etc, I am using outlook 2010 at the moment... >> I didn't make any! > However, a clean config is a happy config ;) > > I dug out a really old Rockwell Jupiter rx and got it working. I will >

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-11 Thread David J Taylor
"Mark C. Stephens" wrote in message news:4bde1132003994498b736b8017d15d10088f5...@exch2010.non-stop.com.au... Apologies, Sometimes the threads get a little jumbled my end. No problems. Perhaps the USENET comp.protocols.time.ntp might show threading better, or the Google Groups interface? W

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-11 Thread Mark C. Stephens
nal Message- From: Mark C. Stephens [mailto:ma...@non-stop.com.au] Sent: Sunday, 12 February 2012 4:32 PM To: David J Taylor; questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you! Apologies, Sometimes the threads get a little jumbled my end. What's a good email cli

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-12 Thread Ron Frazier (NTP)
Hi Mark, I wasn't following this thread too closely, but I thought I'd reply about the email. I like using Eudora Open Source Edition. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_Releases It has essentially the same UI as the old Eudora for Windows from years ago. It's also multiplatform, and runs on

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-13 Thread Dave Hart
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 05:31, Mark C. Stephens wrote: [next line is quoting David Taylor] >> > Let's know what happens with the Rockwell Jupiter - I don't know that box. > > I fired it up, ah ntpd v4.2.7p253 doesn't seem to recognise refclock 31 > anymore > which got a giggle out of me :) > > I

Re: [ntp:questions] Come back PPS I miss you!

2012-02-13 Thread Dave Hart
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 07:08, Mark C. Stephens wrote: > Ah I just tried palisade driver and I am getting > Palisade(1) HW_poll: ioctl(fd, SET, RTS_on): Inappropriate I/O control > operation As with refclock_jupiter.c, refclock_palisade.c is compiled on Windows ntpd 4.2.7p253 but to my knowledge