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Post by thrawn on Jul 23, 2019 19:56:37 GMT
I've been using SIV for ages, but just today I noticed the Tools\Link part of the menus, and realized I could manage my Corsair AX1200i power supply over its USBXpress link dongle from within Windows XP Pro x64 Edition using SIV. Finding the SiLabs XP x64 driver for the USBXPress Link dongle was the easy part, but the Corsair Software to manage it never worked on my ancient workstation OS (Machine is X58 + Xeon X5690 + 48GiB RAM + Titan Black + Intel DC S3610 1.6TB SSD + 54TiB Areca RAID-6 w. 12×6TB HDDs). So I used to pass the Link device through to a Win7 VBox VM to change the power supply configuration (like fan speed) and read all of its sensors - not exactly an elegant solution. I never thought I'd get any software to manage the Corsair Link part via that USBXpress interface from within XP x64 natively, but with SIV, it works wonderfully. It's much faster and less resource-hungry to do it that way. The menus are a bit too hidden I think, but hey, it works. I'm really happy to have discovered this today, so I wanted to express my thanks to you, Mr. Hinchliffe, for implementing support for Corsair Link devices, even for deprecated operating systems! Awesome! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) PS.: I also like how it can seemingly show the correct idle clock rates of my new Ryzen 5 3600X CPU in another machine of mine! Not all tools can do that.
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Post by siv on Jul 24, 2019 7:30:42 GMT
Thank you for your post and I was pleased to know the XP-64 support still works OK as I don't test it that often. Last tine I checked the SIV AIO Link support worked OK on W2K + W98, but I don't think it will work on W95/W95B. Out of interest how are the 12 x 6TB HDDs connected and does SIV report their SMART data, what does Menu->Devices->SMART Drives report? When I first tried SIV on my Ryzen 3600 it "just worked" and my view is that any monitoring program that exhibits the "Observer Effect" is poorly written and often bloatware (I suspect CL4 + iPOO are the bloatware leaders), that said I have not as yet checked out SIV on a 3900X or 3950X, but given how the code works I expect all will be OK. I am currently trying to improve the Ryzen 3000 support, please will you post Menu->Hardware->CPU Detail->CPU AMD Fuse as a text file so I can compare it to what my 3600 reports? I just looked at wp.xin.at/about and am wondering how well >= SIV 5.40 reports the 450GX chipset information. I tried to improve the support in 5.39, but have not tested it on real hardware so it would be great if you emailed me the two Menu->File->Save Local files.
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Post by thrawn on Jul 24, 2019 17:35:23 GMT
The 12 drives are connected to an Areca ARC-1883ix-12 via SAS/12Gbps via passive backplanes (no additional logic between drives and controller). Thank god XP x64 can do GPT for data volumes. SIV does not report individual drive SMART information however: ![](//storage.proboards.com/6836347/thumbnailer/eYutglVuJDjiIoCUfsbG.png) The SmartMonTools (I guess you know them) might be a good place to start I guess, because they added support for reading SMART info from behind several Areca controllers (including mine) a while back, not just for Linux/UNIX, but Windows as well. SmartMonTools device type is "areca", interface under Windows is a virtual device /dev/arcmsr<controllernumber>, which I assume is implemented in SmartMonTools itself. Not sure how they talk to the driver, but there must be some kind of API. Maybe that information can help, the source code is available [ here]. As for the Ryzen 5 3600X, I dumped the "CPU AMD Fuse" data as plain text as requested. Here's the file: [ CPU-AMD-FUSE.txt (3.04 KB)]! For the quad Pentium Pro server, I'll send you an email in a minute! Hope this helps!
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