healthd

I installed healthd hoping it would show me the cpu
temperatures and
fan speeds for my motherboard but it's reporting some crazy
values
like fan speeds of -48C and fan speeds of 13000 rpms.

My motherboard is a SuperMicro X6DH3-G2 which does support
this
feature.  There's a 6300ESB on the board which has an SMBus
controller, so I think that healthd should be started with
the -S
option.  However, I don't know if healthd will work with my
chipset.
It's not clear to me if the 6300ESB is the chipset or just
the smbus
controller which talks to the chipset.

SuperMicro provides a windows utility which reads this data,
so in
theory I should be able to read this data somehow.

If healthd isn't going to work here, perhaps I can just use
smbmsg to
extract the data directly from the chipset?  Does anyone
know how to
figure out which parameters to give smbmsg to do that?

And if not via smbmsg, is there some way to get this data?

Michael Grant
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 04:00:12PM +0100, Michael Grant
wrote:
> I installed healthd hoping it would show me the cpu
temperatures and
> fan speeds for my motherboard but it's reporting some
crazy values
> like fan speeds of -48C and fan speeds of 13000 rpms.


 
[snip]
> SuperMicro provides a windows utility which reads this
data, so in
> theory I should be able to read this data somehow.
[snip]
> And if not via smbmsg, is there some way to get this
data?

Try sysutils/mbmon. It can access monitoring chips in
multiple ways.

Roland
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On Dec 30, 2007 4:56 PM, Rolannessto <rsmithxs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 04:00:12PM +0100, Michael Grant
wrote:
> > I installed healthd hoping it would show me the
cpu temperatures and
> > fan speeds for my motherboard but it's reporting
some crazy values
> > like fan speeds of -48C and fan speeds of 13000
rpms.
>
> 
>
> [snip]
> > SuperMicro provides a windows utility which reads
this data, so in
> > theory I should be able to read this data
somehow.
> [snip]
> > And if not via smbmsg, is there some way to get
this data?
>
> Try sysutils/mbmon. It can access monitoring chips in
multiple ways.
>
> Roland
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Ok, I tried mbmon.  It produces equally strange results:

# mbmon -I
Temp.= 208.0,  0.0,  0.0; Rot.= 8035, 3443, 3515
Vcore = 4.08, 4.08; Volt. = 4.08, 5.03, 11.49,   0.72, 
1.94

That's 208 degrees C, not believable.

mbmon wouldn't talk to the smbus, if I ran it like this it
produced
the following:

# mbmon -S
InitMBInfo: Device not configured

# mbmon -d -A
SMBus[Intel8XX(ICH/ICH2/ICH3/ICH4/ICH5/ICH6)] found, but No
HWM
available on it!!
Summary of Detection:
 * ISA monitor(s):
  ** Winbond Chip W83627HF/THF/THF-A found.

This chip is definitely supported by mbmon.  I read through
the
motherboard manual.  It makes no mention to this chip.  The
sensor
appears to be built into the motherboard and supported by
the cpu.  In
other words, there's nothing special to do, I do not need a
separate
sensor under the chip, it's all built-in.  The temperature
should be
more like 40C and the system should automatically shut down
at about
80C, so 208C is definitely not right.

What other things have people done when this data reported
by healthd
and mbmon are totally wacko?

Michael Grant
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