[ILUG] Watchdog cards

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Niall O Broin wrote:

> I'm looking for a watchdog card. Can anyone recommend any particular 
> models/suppliers? I've found one from a German company ( 
> http://www.quancom.de/quancom/quancom01.nsf/home_prod_eng.htm? 
> OpenFrameSet&Frame=unten&Src=http://www.quancom.de/qprod01/eng/pb/pwdog1.htm 
> ) which looks like it will do the business, so I'd particularly like to hear 
> from anyone who has used that card.

Linux kernel has its own watchdog, boot with watchdog=1 or 
watchdog=2, iirc. Requires local APIC iirc (P6, Athlon, Opteron). 
Usually works, i've gotten panics and stack traces from machines 
wedged with interrupts off using NMI watchdog.

regards,
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