Supermicro BIOS's watchdog feature?

[Xin LI]

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On 2010/06/30 15:19, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> writes:
>> Hmm...  Sorry I think I didn't described the behavior accurately.
>> Currently if I enable the "Watch Dog" option in BIOS, the system
>> reboots after ~5 mins regardless whether I have ichwd(4) and
>> watchdogd(8) loaded.
> 
> Perhaps the motherboard has additional watchdog hardware?  If you
> disable the watchdog in BIOS, does ichwd still work?

If I kill -9 watchdogd the system do reset itself so I think ichwd(4)
really works even if BIOS setting is 'Disabled' (but I'm not sure if
this method is right?  Looking at the code I think the answer is
probably "Yes" though)

Cheers,
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