From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 29 13:43:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C6ED37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alogis.com (firewall.solit-ag.de [212.184.102.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4CF543FBF for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:43:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Holger.Kipp@alogis.com) Received: from intserv.int1.b.intern (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alogis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id h3TKhcu50456 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:43:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hk@alogis.com) Message-Id: <200304292043.h3TKhcu50456@alogis.com> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 20:43:33 +0000 From: Holger Kipp To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: phpGroupWare (http://www.phpgroupware.org) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-description: Mail message body Subject: INFO: Problem with latest HP ProLiant GL360 G3 [workaround] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Holger.Kipp@alogis.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 20:43:42 -0000 Hi, I just wanted to inform everyone who is using HP ProLiant GL360 G3, that we had some trouble with one of the latest system we got: HP changed the BIOS such that fans will operate more silently. As a side effect, our SMP-system crashed after some time due to thermal problems. For Linux and other supported systems, additional tools exist to control the fan speed from OS-level. I consider this a very bad idea... For a short term solution, downgrading the bios (file SP23587.exe, 1107177 bytes) did help here (at least uptime is now more than 5 hours). For a long term solution complaining at HP might help. Regards, Holger Kipp