dbknightx

I'm late to this thread, but just happened to run into this format issue. I have an older 1TB drive that I added back into my system and was planning to use outside my array for TVHeadEnd DVR storage. I pre-cleared the drive successfully and whenever I go to format it the button changes to "Formatting" and then quickly switches to "Formatting Failed". I've tried the latest version of the plugin that you just updated and I still seem to be seeing the same problem. Here is what the log shows for my latest attempt: Apr 12 12:15:30 Clearing partition table of disk '/dev/sdn'. Apr 12 12:15:30 Reloading disk '/dev/sdn' partition table. Apr 12 12:15:30 Creating a 'msdos' partition table on disk '/dev/sdn'. Apr 12 12:15:30 Creating a primary partition on disk '/dev/sdn'. Apr 12 12:15:30 Formatting disk '/dev/sdn' with 'xfs' filesystem. Apr 12 12:15:30 Reloading disk '/dev/sdn' partition table. Am happy to provide more info if it helps debug.

Sure. Here you go: root@Tower:~# ipmi-sensors -t fan ID | Name | Type | Reading | Units | Event 17 | CPU_FAN1_1 | Fan | N/A | RPM | N/A 18 | CPU_FAN2_1 | Fan | N/A | RPM | N/A 19 | REAR_FAN1 | Fan | 0.00 | RPM | 'At or Below (<=) Lower Non-Critical Threshold' 20 | REAR_FAN2 | Fan | 0.00 | RPM | 'At or Below (<=) Lower Non-Critical Threshold' 21 | FRNT_FAN1 | Fan | N/A | RPM | N/A 22 | FRNT_FAN2 | Fan | N/A | RPM | N/A 23 | FRNT_FAN3 | Fan | N/A | RPM | N/A 24 | FRNT_FAN4 | Fan | 2900.00 | RPM | 'OK' 25 | CPU_FAN1_2 | Fan | N/A | RPM | N/A 26 | CPU_FAN2_2 | Fan | N/A | RPM | N/A Three of my front four fans are still connected to the drive array backplane power (not the motherboard) which is why only FRNT_FAN4 is reporting readings. Not sure why the two REAR_FANs are showing zero, since they are definitely running. Hope this helps.

So I opened up my server last night and you are right - the fans are all 3-pin and not pwm fans. I'm planning on upgrading all of them and will do more testing once that has happened. Thanks for the guidance and am really looking forward to the forthcoming fan control feature. Six 5000 RPM fans running at full speed is EXTREMELY loud!

I think they are pwm fans. This is my case and it lists all fans as pwm: https://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/3U/933/SC933T-R760.cfm I'll need to do some more digging and see if only certain fan headers on the motherboard support fan control. There are a bunch of them so I may just try moving them around and see if anything changes. Thanks for the help.

So I went through and tried setting each value individually to 32 (with all others set to 00) and refreshed the Sensors page to see if any fan speeds changed, and nothing seemed to make a difference. The two fans that are showing non-zero values (REAR_FAN1 and REAR_FAN2) are still showing the same values (which fluctuate between 5100 and 5200). I tried setting all values to 01 also just to see what would happen, and there was no effect. Every time I set the values I get back the same response: 01 C7 Anything else I should try?

dmacias, I've installed your plugin on my system and it is working great for monitoring. I'm EXTREMELY interested in the fan control capability, and am happy to assist with information gathering if I can help. I have an ASRock EP2C602 board and I've tried entering the command you mentioned earlier in the thread and it doesn't seem to be working. ipmi-raw 00 3a 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 --debug This outputs: root@Tower:/# ipmi-raw 00 3a 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 --debug ===================================================== OEM - Unknown Request ===================================================== [ HEX DUMP ..... ] = HEX[ 9B] [ 01h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ] [ 00h ] ===================================================== OEM - Unknown Response ===================================================== [ HEX DUMP ..... ] = HEX[ 2B] [ 01h C7h ] rcvd: 01 C7 I assume this is not the expected output. Does this suggest that 3a is not the correct netfn for my motherboard? What should I try next? -David