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| < < | One of the companies I worked for shut down quickly and gave some of their hardware to the staff. I ended up with a Compaq DL380 server, which is a 3U rackmount machine with 2 1GHz PIII CPU's, 4GB of memory and 4 18GB SCSI disks (Ultra3 15000RPM!) on a hardware array controller. It's a nice machine but it's LOUD since the fans run by default at full blast, and the proprietary software to control the speed only works with a few distributions of GNU/Linux. I tried unplugging one of the fans and it worked fine until the machine rebooted at which point the BIOS noticed that the fan was gone and refused to run. I also tried removing the wire grills in front and behind which helped a little but not much. | |||||||
| > > | One of the companies I worked for shut down quickly and gave some of their hardware to the staff. I ended up with a Compaq DL380 server, which is a 3U rackmount machine with 2 1GHz PIII CPU's, 4GB of memory and 4 18GB SCSI disks (Ultra3 15000RPM!) on a hardware array controller. | |||||||
| http://starbreeze.knoware.nl/~spark/compaq/ - tools to report array controller status | ||||||||
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| < < | http://www.sk-tech.net/support/cpqhealth.html - scripts and tips on how to make the Compaq Health utilities run on a Debian machine. This could be the solution to my "loud fan" problem. | |||||||
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| > > | FansThe DL380 is a nice machine but it's LOUD since the fans run by default at full blast, and the proprietary software to control the speed only works with a few distributions of GNU/Linux (but not Debian). I tried unplugging one of the fans and it worked fine until the machine rebooted at which point the BIOS noticed that the fan was gone and refused to run. I also tried removing the wire grills in front and behind which helped a little but not much. http://www.sk-tech.net/support/cpqhealth.html - scripts and tips on how to make the Compaq Health utilities run on a Debian machine. This script works OK, with one problem: the obnoxious proprietary drivers need to be compiled specifically for the kernel that you're running. One of the Compaq makefiles looks for the/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/ directory, but if you're running a Debian kernel then you don't have that directory. You need to build a kernel (I didn't install it) and then softlink /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build to your kernel's source directory. Then the compaq stuff should build and run. But of course it's a proprietary module so your kernel is now tainted. Grrr... | |||||||