Intel server board, fans running at full speed.

[Olivier Drouin]

Alright I will try it if it comes to that. 
Good idea to put data in RAM to get space, forest hidden by a tree :-)

But it looks like that my problem is that I don’t know what driver to use for the fan controller that works over the SMBus.
At least that's how I begin to understand it. 
I don’t know how many google queries I did for this one.

It's an Intel server board, it should be easy to get all the functionalities, no?

Oli



-----Original Message-----
From: Sten Daniel Soersdal [mailto:netslists at gmail.com] 
Sent: 22 novembre 2007 16:23
To: olivier.drouin at enodegroup.com
Cc: freebsd-acpi at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Intel server board, fans running at full speed.

Olivier Drouin wrote:
>                 I wanted to update the bios but what Intel gives (IFLASH.exe
> NH1340P.BIO & NH1340P.ITK) is > 1.44 Meg so it doesn’t fit on a DOS boot
> disk. How can I update the BIOS? Do you feel it can fix my problem ?

Some servers use undisclosed methods to control the fans.

But to do the flashing you could;

To do this is relatively easy using two floppies.
First create a bootdisk that loads DOS, configures a RAM drive and 
copies the essential DOS files to RAM, sets %COMSPEC%, %PATH% et al. You 
could probably fit a copy of some of the files on there.
Second swap floppies with the remaining files and start the flash procedure.
Although it might not be necessary, i'd probably copy the remaining 
files to RAM before starting the flash procedure just to be sure that it 
isn't corrupted in the obvious ways.

-- 
Sten Daniel Soersdal


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