Alan W. Smtih
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I built a FreeNAS system in 2014 using a C2550D4I motherboard. It's currently running 9.3.
While researching to see if those boards are still considered good, I found "Dead ASRock C2750D4I and poor customer service?" and the related "How to: Avoid dead ASRock C2x50 D4i boards by disabling the watchdog".
Checking my BIOS shows that (luckily), the watchdog was already disabled. I don't see anything in my build notes about changing it. So, I'm guessing it was that way out of the box.
I never added the Tunable mentioned in the HowTo (i.e. Variable:`watchdog_enable`, Value:`No`).
My question: Will it hurt anything if I don't add it?
(My reasoning is that I like making as few changes to my system as possible away from the defaults. Helps to reduce the risk of future surprises.)
While researching to see if those boards are still considered good, I found "Dead ASRock C2750D4I and poor customer service?" and the related "How to: Avoid dead ASRock C2x50 D4i boards by disabling the watchdog".
Checking my BIOS shows that (luckily), the watchdog was already disabled. I don't see anything in my build notes about changing it. So, I'm guessing it was that way out of the box.
I never added the Tunable mentioned in the HowTo (i.e. Variable:`watchdog_enable`, Value:`No`).
My question: Will it hurt anything if I don't add it?
(My reasoning is that I like making as few changes to my system as possible away from the defaults. Helps to reduce the risk of future surprises.)