Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:00:42 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq DL380 too noisy Message-ID: <3A2A520A.10116.1E25CC@localhost>
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Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> writes: > Subject: Re: Compaq DL380 too noisy > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > I'm running a Compaq DL380 under FreeBSD 4.2R. Now the fans all run > > on full speed and create quite some noise. > > > > Is there any way of regulating them like with the Insight Manager > > under Windoze? > > Are you sure that software is regulating them at all? I have a ML530 > running FreeBSD 4.2, and upon initial power-on, the fans are running > at full-speed and the thing sounds like a jet taking off. However, > after a short period of time the fans drop to a much lower speed > (still quite loud), and not under any kind of OS control, because it > happens no matter where I am, wether its in the Compaq System Setup, > in FreeBSD, or even on a DOS boot floppy. I have never run Windows NT > on it, so I have no idea if Insight Manager or any other utility > actually offers some kind of control for them. I actually don't like > the fans in the ML530 as much as I do in the 3000's we have. The new > ML530 is WAY too loud, and there is no vibration isolation between the > hotplug fans and the chassis which would actually help decrease the > noise. I had installed an ML370 at a client site myself and was shocked when I heard the fans on it as well. When I spoke to Compaq about it, I was told that it was their insight agents that controlled them (and slowed them down if the ambient temp was low enough), and sure enough, when I finally got around to installing those (this one runs Netware), when their utilities loaded the fans quieted down. The T/S guy told me there is no other way to quiet them down, so I would guess unless you can get hold of the API from Compaq you might be stuck with the noise problem unless you're running a supported OS. (ie something they have agents for) I have no idea why yours eventually quiet down, that certainly wasn't the case for the ML370 - it ran for days like that. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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