SE11, m1015 and hdd power save

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sotech

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I hadn't previously considered doing this except that today got over 40 degrees in the room the server is in and the HDDs were, well, almost TOO hot. If you do find out how to do so please post back in here, I'm very interested to see.
 

Patrick

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If you find it, keep us posted. I'm super swamped with the house... and a 150w 8C/ 16T LGA 2011 part :) Good thing it is "winter" here (well it is like 68F/ 20C and sunny so not so bad at the moment.)
 

Rezin

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Apparently there is a 9211 combination that may allow spin down, haven't found the posts yet - on the unraid / lime tech forums somewhere.
I did this on the weekend. Here's the thread - reply #3.

Just download the "LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P11).zip - 5.87 MB" archive, and follow the ReadMe instructions (and only have 1 card in at a time while doing it).

Spindown with /etc/power.conf works with drives attached to my M1015s now.

Edit: I used the 5IT.bat file, so they're in IT mode.

Edit 2: The GUI version of the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (v2.0.6) supplied in that archive doesn't seem to work.. or at least it didn't for me - every field was disabled, except for the Start and Close buttons. Possibly because I ran it under Windows 7 x64. The command line version that is installed alongside it works fine though.
 
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sotech

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I did this on the weekend. Here's the thread - reply #3.

Just download the "LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P11).zip - 5.87 MB" archive, and follow the ReadMe instructions (and only have 1 card in at a time while doing it).

Spindown with /etc/power.conf works with drives attached to my M1015s now.

Edit: I used the 5IT.bat file, so they're in IT mode.

Edit 2: The GUI version of the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (v2.0.6) supplied in that archive doesn't seem to work.. or at least it didn't for me - every field was disabled, except for the Start and Close buttons. Possibly because I ran it under Windows 7 x64. The command line version that is installed alongside it works fine though.
What does your power.conf look like? A bit of googling suggests that adding "autopm enable" in OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana should help but people seem to have varied results...
 

Rezin

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Code:
device-dependency-property removable-media /dev/fb
autopm                  enable
autoS3                  default
cpu-threshold           1s
autoshutdown            30      9:00    9:00    noshutdown
cpupm                   disable
system-threshold        always-on
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c5t5000CCA369C677C8d0  150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c5t5000CCA369C69D25d0  150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c5t5000CCA369C68B4Fd0  150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c5t5000CCA369C28A4Fd0  150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c5t5000CCA369C6ABA6d0  150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c5t5000CCA369C49B70d0  150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c5t5000CCA369C6AD4Bd0  150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c5t5000CCA369C68F08d0  150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c5t5000CCA369C6AD4Fd0  150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c5t5000CCA369C69CEDd0  150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c0t10d0                150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c0t11d0                150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c0t12d0                150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c0t13d0                150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c0t14d0                150m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c5t5000CCA369C69D04d0  30m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c5t5000CCA369C6AB89d0  30m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c0t8d0                 30m
device-thresholds       /dev/dsk/c0t9d0                 30m
I haven't tried "autopm default" since flashing the cards, so not sure if that works now... just enable/disable, depending on if I want the drives to spindown.