On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:22:03PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:01:02PM +0100, P.O. Gaillard wrote:
> > Pasi Kärkkäinen
> > >Hi!
> > >
> > >I have P8SCi motherboard, and I just tried the watchdog with Linux 2.6.10.
> > >
> > >I loaded w83627hf_wdt driver, and the watchdog was detected:
> > >
> > >WDT driver for the Winbond(TM) W83627HF Super I/O chip initialising.
> > >w83627hf WDT: initialized. timeout=60 sec (nowayout=0)
> > >
> > >But it is not working. I tried setting the timeout to 1 minute, and to
> > >8 minute in the BIOS, but the machine reboots after the delay no matter
> > >what
> > >the delay is.. the watchdog driver is loaded before the timeout of course.
> > >
> > >For some reason, the driver is not working.
> > >
> > >I mailed supermicro support about this, and they told me one of their
> > >customers is using watchdog with Debian 2.6.10 kernel.
> > >So it should work, but..
> > >
> > >Is there some patches I could try?
> > Hi !
> > I am so glad to find somebody interested in this issue ;-)
> >
>
> Me too :)
>
> > I am not sure about which watchdog is working in the P8SCi. On my P4Sci,
> > the working watchdog was the one in Intel's southbridge with the i8xx-tco
> > driver. I tried to use this driver with the P8SAA. To do that I had to use
> > 2.6.11rc2bk9 to get ICH6 support in the i8xx-tco driver. But as you may
> > know, the watchdog is not working on the P8SAA.
> >
> > This might be a good bet for you.
> >
>
> Currently building 2.6.11rc3 i8xx-tco driver to test this..
>
> I'll let you know what happens.
>
i8xx-tco driver from 2.6.11rc3 doesnt seem to work either on P8SCi :(
Machine rebooted after the timeout set in BIOS.
btw. I'm running watchdog-drivers in xen-dom0 kernel (2.6.10-xen0).. could that
cause
problems?
-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
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