Hi, > > > Do you mean that the 6th bit has no effect, or that setting it to 1 > > > disables the watchdog? > > 5th, not 6th > > 6th, I insist. Bit number 5 is the 6th bit. You usually start numbering > with 0, but the "zeroth bit" makes no sense to me (although the word do > exist). Or maybe is it just me? Let's call it the bit accounting for 32 > :) lol > > Seems it disables the watchdog, at least when i set it, bit 4 has no > > effect. So only 'working' values for me were 16 and 144 (=128+16), for > > other values it does nothing when the counter reach 0. > > (at least i see nothing happening) > > Any idea what the 5 other bits are meant for? nope actually the question is what are the other 7 bits for... the only we know is the one with value 16 (0x10), the rest is mistic... > > i hope it helps somebody... before i started to experiment on a live > > production server i searched through the net for this info > > but found nothing :( > > How does it feel to be a pioneer? ;) Ask that ~700 users asking me 'what the hell is with our server now? i can't read my emails!' while i'm keep resetting the system :) (probably i should have answer them: i'm reverse engineering a watch-dog, please be patient :)) A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team -- Developer of MPlayer G2, the Movie Framework for all - http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu