Re: Temperature sensors on HP N40L?

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Nicolas Joly wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:48:08PM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I have a HP N40L microserver running NetBSD 6.0.  Envstat reports
> > the following sensor:
> [...]
> > "i2cscan iic0" reports:
> > 
> >     iic0: found device at 0x18
> >     iic0: found device at 0x30
> >     iic0: found device at 0x50
> >     iic0: 3 devices found
> > 
> > I'd assume that the system temp would be one of the devices on the iic
> > bus?
> 
> I don't think so ...
> 
> at 0x18 it's usually a temp sensor found on memory modules, see sdtemp(4).
> at 0x30 it's the write only access for the memory module.
> at 0x50 it's the memory module handled by spdmem(4).

I'll have a play with sdtemp(4) and the 0x18 temp sensor.

> If you have a IPMI device, other temperatures are often available
> there with other sensors.

The IPMI card is an option on this machine that I don't have installed.

I'll accept that the system and northbridge temperatures are "magic" for
now.

Cheers,
Simon.