Steve Shockley wrote:
My firwall had a hardware failure, so I threw the drive into a Dell
PowerEdge 650. That worked fine, but now I can hear the fans
screaming down the hall through a closed door. Other than hardware
changes (like a resistor or a non-1U server), is there anything I can
do t
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Theo de Raadt
wrote:
>> People have the same issue with IBM servers - the fans run like crazy,
>> and I believe it is the OS' responsibility to check temperatures and
>> adjust fans as necessary.
>
> Not true. On a PC, it is acpi's responsibility to do that, if th
> People have the same issue with IBM servers - the fans run like crazy,
> and I believe it is the OS' responsibility to check temperatures and
> adjust fans as necessary.
Not true. On a PC, it is acpi's responsibility to do that, if they
even exist.
Nah; more often than not this means one other fan isn't spinning. Open
the case and make sure all fans are in working order.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 01:37:05PM +1100, Aaron Mason wrote:
> Hi,
>
> People have the same issue with IBM servers - the fans run like crazy,
> and I believe it is the OS'
Hi,
People have the same issue with IBM servers - the fans run like crazy,
and I believe it is the OS' responsibility to check temperatures and
adjust fans as necessary.
IBM's interface to its fan control systems is underdocumented, and if
there's nothing in OpenBSD to control Dell's, then theirs
My firwall had a hardware failure, so I threw the drive into a Dell
PowerEdge 650. That worked fine, but now I can hear the fans screaming
down the hall through a closed door. Other than hardware changes (like
a resistor or a non-1U server), is there anything I can do to shut this
machine up?
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