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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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Hellmuth Michaelis           hm@altona.hamburg.com              Hamburg, Europe
                                              (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?



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