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.
-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
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