Hi Daniel, On Fri, 2 May 2008 15:05:01 -0400, Daniel Lucio wrote: > I ran a tool called Super Doctor II on a Super Micro X7DA8 > motherboard, and i noticed that some of values where different for > the following measurements returned by lm-sensors: > > w83793-i2c-0-2e > Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 1100 > -12V: -11.38 V - compute in3 (((@/8)*18500)/256)-16, (((@+16) > *256)/18500)*8 > +5V: +5.12 V -No scaling > 5VSB: +5.12 V -No scaling > > SuperDoctorII returned for the same measurements: > -12V: -12.21 > +5V: 4.97 > +5Vsb: 4.97 > > My question is, how should I scale the values read by lm-sensors to > return the correct value? First of all: you should not assume that SuperDoctorII is always correct. I've seen enough buggy vendor-provided software and buggy BIOS to say that you should treat them as valuable hints, but should not trust them blindly. For +5V and +5VSB: the w83793 driver applies a +150 mV offset to the register readings. We do that because it's documented that way in the datasheet. It never made much sense to me from a physical point of view, but I tend to trust Winbond's datasheet. So my guess is that SuperDoctorII misses the offset, and the w83793 driver is correct. The best way to make sure would be to measure the actual value with an external voltmeter if you have one - 150 mV is significant enough to be measured I think. For -12V: where did you get your compute formula? It seems to be the same as Romain Dolbeau (Cc'd) posted a few days ago for another SuperMicro motherboard, but I had never seen it before. Me, I am using: compute in3 (5.14*@)-14.91, (@+14.91)/5.14 Give it a try, it should provide a result similar to what SuperDoctorII says. The exact formula depends on the resistors and reference voltage used on your specific board. Only SuperMicro knows what they used. > Also, I noticed that SuperDoctorII displayed other information like: > > Chassis Intrusion Bad Warning! > Power Supply Failure Good > > How can I find out which sensor read by lm-sensors maps to these two > readings? The first one is exposed as file "chassis" in /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/device. We don't have support for this feature in libsensors, which is why you don't see it in "sensors. Maybe we could standardize it if there is enough requests for this feature. The second one is probably not implemented by the w83793 driver, to be honest I don't even know what it is supposed to correspond to. -- Jean Delvare
