Hi corey,
I am sorry, But i think ipmitool is working fine. The reason is as i said that
i have been able to print DIMM sizes successfully on one machine. So to me, it
appears that either point (a) or point (b) of my doubt.
Am i missing something?
Thanks
Amit
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 Corey Minyard wrote :
>I think in my last email that I said that the data seems to be correct
>and ipmitool does not seem to be doing the right thing. I'd suggest
>doing a patch to ipmitool and submitting it to the mailing list.
>
>-corey
>
>Amit Kumar wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello Corey,
> >
> > I am sorry for late reply. I have pasted one of reply by you.
> > I was doing some investigation on DIMM SPDs and hardware topology.
> > Finally on one machine, I was successfully able to print DIMM sizes
> > and more information. Then after analyzing more on my target hardware
> > and reading your email more carefully, I had three questions/doubts -
> >
> > (a) You have mentioned that i need to have proper memory entities in
> > SDR. Do does it mean that if i am able to print all DIMM entity names
> > in FRU record, I have proper entities? (As i have given in the email
> > below). Am i right?
> >
> > (b) you mentioned that DIMM SPD need to be tied into BMC's I2C.For the
> > target hardware, which i am using, DIMM SPD is connected to BMC's I2C
> > bus, but not directly. The I2C bus for BMC goes through a Mux (PCA9548
> > I2C switch). Is it possible to tell ipmitool somehow read DIMM SPD via
> > I2C switch?
> >
> > (c) I tried using Raw commands also in meantime (As per IPMI
> > specification v2.0). I can read Fan speed and sensor information
> > successfully but i fail to read DIMM information using Raw commands.
> > Any pointers in this direction?
> >
> > Thanks and Sorry for long email,
> >
> > Regards
> > Amit
> >
>
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