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Date:      Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:04:29 +0100
From:      Andre Oppermann <oppermann@telehouse.ch>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compaq DL380 too noisy
Message-ID:  <3A2B7A3D.E595EAD8@telehouse.ch>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012021718560.50643-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>

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Chris Dillon wrote:
> 
> 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?

Yes, I am unfortunatly.

> 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.

The DL380 simply stays horribly loud. I've got another DL380 next to
it running NT and that box almost quiet.

> 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.

-- 
Andre


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