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>It depends on the watchdog hardware itself. Some are not able to
>handle long timeouts.  Check the man pages for the hardware you are
>using.  The VIA hardware that we hacked a driver for said it could go
>upto 512 seconds, but we could not get to that length
>
>http://www.tancsa.com/watchdog/

Thanks for the reply. I'll have to do some research on our hardware.