On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:48:59 -0800 (PST), dean gaudet wrote: > > - the mtp008 seems to hang and start reporting all zeroes/constant > > garbage. i'm skeptical this is just my hacked code though because the > > BIOS "System Health Monitor" has the exact same problem after a few > > minutes. > > I found the following in our FAQ: > "Also, MTP008 chips seem to randomly refuse to respond, for unknown > reasons. You can see this as 'XX' entries in i2cdump." > So it might be a known issue with this chip. Which makes me wonder if > it's worth having a driver if it'll stop working after only a few > minutes. Unless this is a bug in the original drivers and we manage to > fix it, of course. i tried some more and had no luck avoiding this problem... and even managed to cause it to shut off power to the cpu fans! that made me a bit nervous, and since i had a deadline for putting those boxes online i decided to just live without sensors, alas. (fortunately they're in a redundant config, so i'm not so worried.) thanks for the info though... i might try more in the future. -dean
