On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
decode-dimms (or decode-dimms.pl) from lm-sensors is extremely useful for this. Run it on a working system and it will dump the content of all SPDs and show the meaning of the values stored there.
The lm_sensors tools are handy when everything is working fine. They're not when things are not. In my case, things are not and, sadly, the tools are largely useless -- I'm going to have to write my own.
I can run this on the dell, and the decode-dimms will gladly tell me there is no memory. Bummer! :-)
A further problem is the lm_sensors guys don't always understand Unix (a common problem nowadays :-) or decode-dimms would be two tools: 1. get_spd 2. decode_spd
which would make part 2 independent of part 1. Then, I could easily feed my output from serialice into decode_spd and have it say "WOW! That's bogus!".
Maybe as part of this I can bust decode-dimms into two pieces as well ...
thanks, though, my goal is to have decode-dimms work well on the dell. Hopefully won't take too long ...
ron