Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 21:14:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Hardware Reboots Message-ID: <m0sN3Jq-000209C@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <199506171616.MAA19379@mail.htp.com> from "dennis" at Jun 17, 95 12:16:45 pm
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>From the keyboard of dennis:
> One of our sync cards has a "watchdog timer", which can be set to "hard
> reboot" the PC if no interrupt is received for X seconds. (there is a jumper
> on the board which connects to the reset pins on your MB). If you run a
> simple utility you can set the timeout to ~0 and hard reboot the machine on
> demand.
I'm sorry to interrupt, but until now i thought the reset line on ISA/EISA
was unidirectional from the CPU to reset cards in ISA/EISA slots.
Not true ?
hellmuth
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