number of bytes data per sensor and contents/meaning of those bytes.
Although both this document and the kernel driver have kept the sensor
-terminoligy for the addressing within a bank this is not 100% correct, in
+terminology for the addressing within a bank this is not 100% correct, in
bank 0x24 for example the addressing within the bank selects a PWM output not
a sensor.
turned up which do not hold 0x08 at DATA within 250 reads after writing the
bank address. With these versions this happens quite frequent, using larger
timeouts doesn't help, they just go offline for a second or 2, doing some
-internal callibration or whatever. Your code should be prepared to handle
+internal calibration or whatever. Your code should be prepared to handle
this and in case of no response in this specific case just goto sleep for a
while and then retry.
0-0x30 with the reading code used for the sensor banks (0x20-0x28) and this
resulted in a _permanent_ reprogramming of the voltages, luckily I had the
sensors part configured so that it would shutdown my system on any out of spec
-voltages which proprably safed my computer (after a reboot I managed to
+voltages which probably safed my computer (after a reboot I managed to
immediately enter the bios and reload the defaults). This probably means that
the read/write cycle for the non sensor part is different from the sensor part.
Note:
The uGuru is a microcontroller with onboard firmware which programs
it to behave as a hwmon IC. There are many different revisions of the
- firmware and thus effectivly many different revisions of the uGuru.
+ firmware and thus effectively many different revisions of the uGuru.
Below is an incomplete list with which revisions are used for which
Motherboards:
sensortype (Volt or Temp) for bank1 sensors, for revision 1 uGuru's
this does not always work. For these uGuru's the autodetection can
be overridden with the bank1_types module param. For all 3 known
- revison 1 motherboards the correct use of this param is:
+ revision 1 motherboards the correct use of this param is:
bank1_types=1,1,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,1
You may also need to specify the fan_sensors option for these boards
fan_sensors=5
Note:
The uGuru is a microcontroller with onboard firmware which programs
it to behave as a hwmon IC. There are many different revisions of the
- firmware and thus effectivly many different revisions of the uGuru.
+ firmware and thus effectively many different revisions of the uGuru.
Below is an incomplete list with which revisions are used for which
Motherboards:
- uGuru 3.0.0.0 ~ 3.0.x.x (AW8, AL8, AT8, NI8 SLI, AT8 32X, AN8 32X,
AW9D-MAX)
- The abituguru3 driver is only for revison 3.0.x.x motherboards,
+ The abituguru3 driver is only for revision 3.0.x.x motherboards,
this driver will not work on older motherboards. For older
motherboards use the abituguru (without the 3 !) driver.