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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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