Discussion:
Supermicro X7SBE with Chenbro 16 bay 4U case
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Dan Carroll
2012-09-18 15:05:44 UTC
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Hiya All,

I have the above gear with an Areca 12 channel card in it. It's
getting on and I'm getting a periodic loud beeping from it. When it
starts it beeps for about half a second and repeats every 15 seconds or so.

If I shut the system down totally for a few hours the problem goes away
only to reappear days, weeks or months later.
Nothing in the freebsd logs and saw nothing in the bios. Nothing in
the Supermicro manual either. The system appears fine otherwise.

Anyone have this gear and seen this problem?

-D
Mike Tancsa
2012-09-18 15:18:02 UTC
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Post by Dan Carroll
Hiya All,
I have the above gear with an Areca 12 channel card in it. It's
getting on and I'm getting a periodic loud beeping from it. When it
starts it beeps for about half a second and repeats every 15 seconds or so.
Hi,
Is it the card, or the MB that is beeping ? Did you try and look at the
RAID card to see if its complaining about a disk ?

---Mike
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Dan Carroll
2012-09-18 20:49:23 UTC
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Post by Mike Tancsa
Hi,
Is it the card, or the MB that is beeping ? Did you try and look at the
RAID card to see if its complaining about a disk ?
Hello,

I think it's the chassis to be honest. There are no error logs on the
card either, of that I am certain.

-D
Matt Burke
2012-09-19 08:36:58 UTC
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Post by Dan Carroll
Post by Mike Tancsa
Is it the card, or the MB that is beeping ? Did you try and look at the
RAID card to see if its complaining about a disk ?
I think it's the chassis to be honest.
If your chassis is the RM41416, or similar to it, then there'll be an
'alarm silence' button on the front. A bent paperclip will tell you if it's
the chassis or PSU screaming.

Is your PSU overloaded? I found that with 16x 7200RPM SAS disks and a dual
socket motherboard with a "triple redundant" PSU, the total power
consumption measured at the plug socket was something like 550W idle, 680W
at full tilt.
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Dan Carroll
2012-09-19 11:05:31 UTC
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Post by Matt Burke
If your chassis is the RM41416, or similar to it, then there'll be an
'alarm silence' button on the front. A bent paperclip will tell you if
it's the chassis or PSU screaming. Is your PSU overloaded? I found
that with 16x 7200RPM SAS disks and a dual socket motherboard with a
"triple redundant" PSU, the total power consumption measured at the
plug socket was something like 550W idle, 680W at full tilt.
Thanks for your response.

I'm hoping it's just a chassis alarm for a case fan. It looks like my
chassis has that capability.
I only have a single CPU 12 disk box with a 750w (I believe) PSU so I
think it's not overloaded. Also the alarm came on at idle.

I'm waiting for the next occurrence to see if I can diagnose further.

-D
Mike Tancsa
2012-09-19 15:03:41 UTC
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Post by Dan Carroll
Post by Matt Burke
If your chassis is the RM41416, or similar to it, then there'll be an
'alarm silence' button on the front. A bent paperclip will tell you if
it's the chassis or PSU screaming. Is your PSU overloaded? I found
that with 16x 7200RPM SAS disks and a dual socket motherboard with a
"triple redundant" PSU, the total power consumption measured at the
plug socket was something like 550W idle, 680W at full tilt.
Thanks for your response.
I'm hoping it's just a chassis alarm for a case fan. It looks like my
chassis has that capability.
I only have a single CPU 12 disk box with a 750w (I believe) PSU so I
think it's not overloaded. Also the alarm came on at idle.
I'm waiting for the next occurrence to see if I can diagnose further.
Does this board have ipmi ? Perhaps you could slurp out some sensor
logs that way ?

e.g on some of my Supermicro boards,


ipmitool -U ADMIN -I lan -H <IP address of IPMI nic> "sel" "list"

also "sensor" and "sdr" will tell you some info like below (SuperMicro
H8QG6)

CPU1 Temp | 0 unspecified | ok
CPU2 Temp | 0 unspecified | ok
CPU3 Temp | 0 unspecified | ok
CPU4 Temp | 0 unspecified | ok
System Temp | 27 degrees C | ok
CPU1 Vcore | 0.98 Volts | ok
CPU2 Vcore | 0.98 Volts | ok
CPU3 Vcore | 0.98 Volts | ok
CPU4 Vcore | 0.98 Volts | ok
CPU1 DIMM | 1.53 Volts | ok
CPU2 DIMM | 1.53 Volts | ok
CPU3 DIMM | 1.53 Volts | ok
CPU4 DIMM | 1.53 Volts | ok
+5V | 5.06 Volts | ok
+12V | 12.08 Volts | ok
+3.3V | 3.24 Volts | ok
+3.3VSB | 3.31 Volts | ok
VBAT | 3.17 Volts | ok
Fan1 | 9315 RPM | ok
Fan2 | 9315 RPM | ok
Fan3 | 9315 RPM | ok
Fan4 | 9315 RPM | ok
Fan5 | 10530 RPM | ok
Fan6 | 9315 RPM | ok
Fan7 | no reading | ns
Fan8 | no reading | ns
Fan9 | no reading | ns
Fan10 | 6480 RPM | ok
Fan11 | no reading | ns
Intrusion | 0 unspecified | nc
PS Status | 0 unspecified | ok


I think the default pass is ADMIN
1 | 01/01/2007 | 00:00:27 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Asserted
2 | 07/12/2012 | 12:03:44 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Asserted
3 | 07/17/2012 | 14:01:03 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Deasserted
4 | 07/17/2012 | 14:01:06 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Asserted
5 | 07/20/2012 | 07:57:02 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Deasserted
6 | 07/20/2012 | 07:57:05 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Asserted
7 | 07/21/2012 | 16:55:02 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Deasserted

CPU1 Temp | 0x0 | discrete | 0x0000| na | na
| na | na | na | na
CPU2 Temp | 0x0 | discrete | 0x0000| na | na
| na | na | na | na
CPU3 Temp | 0x0 | discrete | 0x0000| na | na
| na | na | na | na
CPU4 Temp | 0x0 | discrete | 0x0000| na | na
| na | na | na | na
System Temp | 28.000 | degrees C | ok | -9.000 | -7.000
| -5.000 | 75.000 | 77.000 | 79.000
CPU1 Vcore | 0.976 | Volts | ok | 0.808 | 0.816
| 0.824 | 1.352 | 1.360 | 1.368
CPU2 Vcore | 0.976 | Volts | ok | 0.808 | 0.816
| 0.824 | 1.352 | 1.360 | 1.368
CPU3 Vcore | 0.976 | Volts | ok | 0.808 | 0.816
| 0.824 | 1.352 | 1.360 | 1.368
CPU4 Vcore | 0.976 | Volts | ok | 0.808 | 0.816
| 0.824 | 1.352 | 1.360 | 1.368
CPU1 DIMM | 1.528 | Volts | ok | 1.184 | 1.200
| 1.216 | 1.648 | 1.664 | 1.680
CPU2 DIMM | 1.528 | Volts | ok | 1.184 | 1.200
| 1.216 | 1.648 | 1.664 | 1.680
CPU3 DIMM | 1.528 | Volts | ok | 1.184 | 1.200
| 1.216 | 1.648 | 1.664 | 1.680
CPU4 DIMM | 1.528 | Volts | ok | 1.184 | 1.200
| 1.216 | 1.648 | 1.664 | 1.680
+5V | 5.056 | Volts | ok | 4.416 | 4.448
| 4.480 | 5.536 | 5.568 | 5.600
+12V | 12.084 | Volts | ok | 10.600 | 10.653
| 10.706 | 13.250 | 13.303 | 13.356
+3.3V | 3.240 | Volts | ok | 2.880 | 2.904
| 2.928 | 3.648 | 3.672 | 3.696
+3.3VSB | 3.312 | Volts | ok | 2.880 | 2.904
| 2.928 | 3.648 | 3.672 | 3.696
VBAT | 3.168 | Volts | ok | 2.880 | 2.904
| 2.928 | 3.648 | 3.672 | 3.696
Fan1 | 9315.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan2 | 9315.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan3 | 9315.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan4 | 9315.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan5 | 9315.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan6 | 9315.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan7 | na | RPM | na | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan8 | na | RPM | na | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan9 | na | RPM | na | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan10 | 6480.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan11 | na | RPM | na | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Intrusion | 0.000 | unspecified | nc | na | na
| na | na | na | na
PS Status | 0.000 | unspecified | ok | na | na
| na | na | na | na
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---Mike
Post by Dan Carroll
-D
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Dan Carroll
2012-09-19 21:35:59 UTC
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Post by Mike Tancsa
Does this board have ipmi ? Perhaps you could slurp out some sensor
logs that way ?
e.g on some of my Supermicro boards,
ipmitool -U ADMIN -I lan -H <IP address of IPMI nic> "sel" "list"
also "sensor" and "sdr" will tell you some info like below (SuperMicro
H8QG6)
CPU1 Temp | 0 unspecified | ok
CPU2 Temp | 0 unspecified | ok
CPU3 Temp | 0 unspecified | ok
CPU4 Temp | 0 unspecified | ok
System Temp | 27 degrees C | ok
CPU1 Vcore | 0.98 Volts | ok
CPU2 Vcore | 0.98 Volts | ok
CPU3 Vcore | 0.98 Volts | ok
CPU4 Vcore | 0.98 Volts | ok
CPU1 DIMM | 1.53 Volts | ok
CPU2 DIMM | 1.53 Volts | ok
CPU3 DIMM | 1.53 Volts | ok
CPU4 DIMM | 1.53 Volts | ok
+5V | 5.06 Volts | ok
+12V | 12.08 Volts | ok
+3.3V | 3.24 Volts | ok
+3.3VSB | 3.31 Volts | ok
VBAT | 3.17 Volts | ok
Fan1 | 9315 RPM | ok
Fan2 | 9315 RPM | ok
Fan3 | 9315 RPM | ok
Fan4 | 9315 RPM | ok
Fan5 | 10530 RPM | ok
Fan6 | 9315 RPM | ok
Fan7 | no reading | ns
Fan8 | no reading | ns
Fan9 | no reading | ns
Fan10 | 6480 RPM | ok
Fan11 | no reading | ns
Intrusion | 0 unspecified | nc
PS Status | 0 unspecified | ok
I think the default pass is ADMIN
1 | 01/01/2007 | 00:00:27 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Asserted
2 | 07/12/2012 | 12:03:44 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Asserted
3 | 07/17/2012 | 14:01:03 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Deasserted
4 | 07/17/2012 | 14:01:06 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Asserted
5 | 07/20/2012 | 07:57:02 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Deasserted
6 | 07/20/2012 | 07:57:05 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Asserted
7 | 07/21/2012 | 16:55:02 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis
intrusion | Deasserted
CPU1 Temp | 0x0 | discrete | 0x0000| na | na
| na | na | na | na
CPU2 Temp | 0x0 | discrete | 0x0000| na | na
| na | na | na | na
CPU3 Temp | 0x0 | discrete | 0x0000| na | na
| na | na | na | na
CPU4 Temp | 0x0 | discrete | 0x0000| na | na
| na | na | na | na
System Temp | 28.000 | degrees C | ok | -9.000 | -7.000
| -5.000 | 75.000 | 77.000 | 79.000
CPU1 Vcore | 0.976 | Volts | ok | 0.808 | 0.816
| 0.824 | 1.352 | 1.360 | 1.368
CPU2 Vcore | 0.976 | Volts | ok | 0.808 | 0.816
| 0.824 | 1.352 | 1.360 | 1.368
CPU3 Vcore | 0.976 | Volts | ok | 0.808 | 0.816
| 0.824 | 1.352 | 1.360 | 1.368
CPU4 Vcore | 0.976 | Volts | ok | 0.808 | 0.816
| 0.824 | 1.352 | 1.360 | 1.368
CPU1 DIMM | 1.528 | Volts | ok | 1.184 | 1.200
| 1.216 | 1.648 | 1.664 | 1.680
CPU2 DIMM | 1.528 | Volts | ok | 1.184 | 1.200
| 1.216 | 1.648 | 1.664 | 1.680
CPU3 DIMM | 1.528 | Volts | ok | 1.184 | 1.200
| 1.216 | 1.648 | 1.664 | 1.680
CPU4 DIMM | 1.528 | Volts | ok | 1.184 | 1.200
| 1.216 | 1.648 | 1.664 | 1.680
+5V | 5.056 | Volts | ok | 4.416 | 4.448
| 4.480 | 5.536 | 5.568 | 5.600
+12V | 12.084 | Volts | ok | 10.600 | 10.653
| 10.706 | 13.250 | 13.303 | 13.356
+3.3V | 3.240 | Volts | ok | 2.880 | 2.904
| 2.928 | 3.648 | 3.672 | 3.696
+3.3VSB | 3.312 | Volts | ok | 2.880 | 2.904
| 2.928 | 3.648 | 3.672 | 3.696
VBAT | 3.168 | Volts | ok | 2.880 | 2.904
| 2.928 | 3.648 | 3.672 | 3.696
Fan1 | 9315.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan2 | 9315.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan3 | 9315.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan4 | 9315.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan5 | 9315.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan6 | 9315.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan7 | na | RPM | na | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan8 | na | RPM | na | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan9 | na | RPM | na | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan10 | 6480.000 | RPM | ok | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Fan11 | na | RPM | na | 405.000 | 540.000
| 675.000 | 34155.000 | 34290.000 | 34425.000
Intrusion | 0.000 | unspecified | nc | na | na
| na | na | na | na
PS Status | 0.000 | unspecified | ok | na | na
| na | na | na | na
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I also considered this, but from memory I did disable IPMI as it was
having issues with the piggyback of the ethernet card.
I'll check and report back.

-D
Sevan / Venture37
2012-09-23 15:47:31 UTC
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Is your CPU overheating?


Sevan
Dan Carroll
2012-09-24 00:14:23 UTC
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Post by Sevan / Venture37
Is your CPU overheating?
Sevan
No according to the logged data I'm getting from the motherboard.
I am reasonably sure it's the case complaining that a fan is broken (or
something similar).

Still waiting for the next time it breaks. Could be weeks.

-D

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