Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 16:12:55 -0500 From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com> To: <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com>, <david@landgren.net>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-) Message-ID: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10440E4F5@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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The HP ProLiant DL360G3 that Holger mentions below has hardware fan
control enabled by default. With the latest BIOS version (and without
running a health driver), the hardware will start the fans at low speed
and will switch them to high speed when a certain temperature (e.g.
"temp-caution") is reached. The fans will then run at full speed until
the server is rebooted. If the temperature reaches an even higher trip
point (e.g. "temp-deadly") the server will automatically power off
(without a graceful shutdown).
There's no reason to use an older BIOS version. The latest version will
start the fans at a low speed instead of starting them at a high speed.
Thus, if operating in a cool environment, you'll have less noise.
FWIW, some of the benefits of running a health driver (on a supported
OS) are:
- fans will gradually ramp up in speed instead of going directly from
slow to fast.
- a graceful OS shutdown can occur instead of the abrupt power off when
the system overheats.
Regards,
John
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John Cagle john.cagle@hp.com
Principal Member Technical Staff
Industry Standard Servers
Hewlett-Packard Company
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger Kipp [mailto:Holger.Kipp@alogis.com]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 11:39 AM
> To: david@landgren.net; freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Options available for using >4Gb RAM on x86
>=20
> David Landgren (david@landgren.net) wrote:=20
>=20
> >I'm looking at replacing my Squid proxy hardware in the next=20
> month or=20
> >two. I'll be deploying a single processor (+HTT) HP DL-380=20
> G3 with 6Gb=20
> >RAM and two RAID 1 volumes.
>=20
> I can't comment on 5.x, but I experienced some problems with=20
> the latest HP DL360G3, as the bios was changed lately to=20
> reduce fan noises, and then a OS-dependant health driver=20
> might be needed. Otherwise, the system will overheat and=20
> switch off without warning.
> A possible solution might be to reactivate fan hardware=20
> control (iirc there are some hardware switches) and/or go=20
> back to an older Firmware. For the DL 360 G3 we used=20
> SP23587.exe (ProLiant DL360 G3 ROM P31 (01/09/2003)) which=20
> worked. And don't forget to complain to HP ;-)
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> >This uses (at least in 4.x) the bge network driver and the ciss SCSI=20
> >driver. Is this even reasonable to consider right now or are=20
> they known=20
> >to be completely untested?
>=20
> Regards,
> Holger Kipp
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