Subject: Re: more fan sensors via envstat?
To: Chris Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com>
From: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
List: port-amd64
Date: 08/10/2005 07:38:50
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:35:22PM -0700, Chris Kantarjiev wrote:
> > 
> > According to this chip's docs (<http://www.winbond.com/PDF/sheet/w83627hf.pdf> 
> > page 22 in xpdf); it only has hardware to read three fans.
> 
> Pretty interesting, that - I wonder how the BIOS is reading all 8?

It use more than one sensor. My amd64 box, a Tyan S2885, holds 2 sensors.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.