watchdog with P4SCI and 2.6.9 (Supermicro)

Olivier Kaloudoff
2005-09-26T17:30:07Z

Hi !

I'm happy to say that watchdog for P4SCi is detected
fine with my 2.6.9-freevps-1.5-1 kernel (centos 4.1 patched with freevps
1.5-1)

[root@shinwey ~]# uname -a
Linux shinwey 2.6.9-freevps-1.5-1 #1 SMP Sun Sep 25 23:07:51 CEST 2005
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Sep 26 10:55:18 shinwey kernel: WDT500/501-P driver 0.10 at 0x0240
(Interrupt 11). heartbeat=60 sec (nowayout=0)

Sep 26 10:55:18 shinwey kernel: wdt: Fan Tachometer is Disabled
Sep 26 10:55:18 shinwey kernel: w83877f_wdt: cannot register miscdev on minor=130 (err=-16)

Sep 26 10:55:18 shinwey kernel: WDT driver for the Winbond(TM) W83627HF Super I/O chip
initialising.

Sep 26 10:55:18 shinwey kernel: w83627hf WDT: cannot register miscdev on minor=130 (err=-16)

Unfortunatelly, I set up a 4 minutes delay in the bios, the server takes
less than 2 minutes to boot and detect the watchdog chip, but reboot takes
place ...

I don't get what's happening, my /dev/watchdog is existing and conform to
the devices.txt;

[root@shinwey Documentation]# ls -l /dev/watchdog
crw------- 1 root root 10, 130 Sep 26 2005 /dev/watchdog

Any tip ?

Sincere Regards,

Olivier Kaloudoff