mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) (07/23/88)
After components in some of our VAXes were fried after a power outage one evening (the air conditioning units in our machine room don't automatically come on when the power comes back on), our DEC FE showed us the >>>SHO POWER command on our 8650's, which shows the temperature of several thermistors. Are these temperature values kept in some machine registers somewhere that a program (possibly with the help of a UNIX kernel) can read? Mark Plotnick allegra!mp
chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (07/27/88)
In article <11142@andante.UUCP> mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) writes: >our DEC FE showed us the >>>SHO POWER command on our 8650's, which >shows the temperature of several thermistors. Are these temperature >values kept in some machine registers somewhere that a program >(possibly with the help of a UNIX kernel) can read? Yes. The only problem is that we have not figured out how to get the EMM to speak up. Fred Blonder wrote a preliminary /dev/emm driver, but it does not work at all, and after reading the hardware register descriptions several times I still have not deciphered them. If anyone out there has working 86xx console-poking code, I would appreciate a copy, if possible.... Chris -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris