Anyone has tried the Supermicro X8SIL-F mainboard

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3400/X8SIL.cfm?IPMI=Y

 

Do the s3 script and fan speed control work with it? Thanks for any insights.

 

 

I do not believe this board supports s3. If I remember right it supports s1 and s5. Have not tried the fan speed script yet though.

Please try out if possible and report. I have heard it supports S3 and also fan speed control, wasn't able to try myself though as I don't have it right now. If you could confirm I guess lots of people would be interested as this would make for a very good unRAID build.

 

Look here for instruction, it is simple to check, at least for S3:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=10356.msg98236#msg98236

I will do a little research, but here is what the cat /proc/acpi/sleep command is telling me:

S0 S1 S5.

 

I will see if I can change the BIOS to enable S3, although I did not see when I set up my server.

 

Burt

 

 

 

I will do a little research, but here is what the cat /proc/acpi/sleep command is telling me:

S0 S1 S5.

 

I will see if I can change the BIOS to enable S3, although I did not see when I set up my server.

The X7SPA series has to have S3 enabled in the BIOS.  It's actually a sleep level selection, ranging from S0 to S5.

I found no such setting for the x8sil. It is unfortunate, but what can I expect from a server board that is meant to be up 24/7.

 

I still need to try the fan speed. I had an issue with the board alarming and the fans going crazy with istat running. I disabled it and have been testing it for 4 days now. It has been stable with no alarms. I am hoping to test the fanspeed over the weekend.

I found no such setting for the x8sil.

According to the manual in section 4-17 on page 85, it does indeed only indicate S1 or S5.  However, it also states that S5 "Enables system wake up from S1/S3/S4/S5."  So setting it for S5 should have it covered.

 

I still need to try the fan speed... I am hoping to test the fanspeed over the weekend.

Likewise on page 84 under Fan Speed Control Modes it describes the different settings in the BIOS that regulate the fan speeds.  To make sure I am in control of the speeds via code, I change the setting to Full Speed.

The Options are: Full Speed (@100% of PWM Cycle), Performance (@70% of

PWM Cycle), Balanced (@50% of PWM Cycle), and Energy Saving (@30% of

PWM Cycle).

 

Thanks for the input, I will add this to my testing this weekend. I have my fans currently set to energy saver. Perhaps that is one of my issues with istat.

 

All right, I was unable to get it to go to sleep. I will look into the s2ram option.

 

I am attempting to set up the fanspeed script. It appears to be working, well it slowed the fans to 1140rpm, I have them set in the BIOS to full speed. However it is not showing up in the syslog. Should I be seeing it there? This is what I inserted into my go script

 

# enable fan speed control

cp /boot/config/sensors3.conf /etc/

/usr/bin/sensors -s

# insert into crontab

chmod +x /boot/packages/unraid-fan-speed.sh

crontab -l >/tmp/crontab

grep -q "unraid-fan-speed.sh" /tmp/crontab 1>/dev/null 2>&1

if [ "$?" = "1" ]

then

    crontab -l | egrep -v "control unRAID fan speed based on temperature:|unraid-fan-speed.sh" >/tmp/crontab

    echo "#" >>/tmp/crontab

    echo "# control unRAID fan speed based on temperature" >>/tmp/crontab

    echo "*/2 * * * * /boot/packages/unraid-fan-speed.sh 1>/dev/null 2>&1" >>/tmp/crontab

    cp /tmp/crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root-

    crontab /tmp/crontab

fi

 

I have the fan speed script in my packages dir. When I do the crontab -l script it shows that it is indeed loaded.

Which version of the fan_speed script did you use, Starcat's or mine?  The output will depend on the version.

I am not sure who's version it originally was, but I used the one that Matt Foley linked in post 73 of this thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5548.60

Unfortunately I am almost 50% completed with a parity check and haven't been able to get a drive above 33C. I'm not complaining, but fan speeds are around 1200 RPM, and want to see if they will automatically increase. I guess I can disconnect a fan or change the temps in the script. Any thoughts?

Alright! I can verify that the fan speed control is working. parity drive went up to 34C and fan speed increased to 1850rpm.