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Date:      Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:37:35 +0000
From:      Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken@mthelicon.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Call for testers - new ichwd ids
Message-ID:  <200808270037.35273.ken@mthelicon.com>
In-Reply-To: <367b2c980808250552i630dd176wf500bb83960f64ed@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <367b2c980808250552i630dd176wf500bb83960f64ed@mail.gmail.com>

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On Monday 25 August 2008 12:52:48 Olivier SMEDTS wrote:
> Hello hackers,
>
> If you have an Intel ICH chipset and the ichwd driver doesn't work for
> you, please test this patch :

Oliver, 

	Thanks for the patch, but sadly this didnt help the situation I have with my 
motherboard. It identifies the ICH9R chipset, but sadly looks like the 
motherboard company has disabled the watchdog action. I have already spoken to 
the motherboard producers and they sware they have not, but looking at the 
code I cant see any other explanation for the behavior.

	The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5  Bios F7 (latest)

Output is:
ichwd0: <Intel ICH9R watchdog timer> on isa0
ichwd0: ICH WDT present but disabled in BIOS or hardware
device_attach: ichwd0 attach returned 6

	I looked at the datasheet for the ICH9 chipset and I believe they have a 
pull-up on the speaker line that is telling the chip to disable the watchdog 
functions.

Peg





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