I purchased a "SE326M1 G6 Twin Xeon Hex Core L5640 48GB RAM 2U HP Proliant DL180 G6 Rack Server" on eBay. As it didn't come with any hard drives I bought four caddies and some third party SATA hard drives. The computer as such works but the fans run constantly on 80% fan speed and thus it sounds like a rocket.
The iLO 2 logging shows the following warning:
"POST Error: 1717-Slot X Drive Array - The Following Drive(s) Are Reporting an Overheated Condition:"
The iLO 2 temperature reading for storage area (five separate readings) displays "OK" and 0 Centigrade for all five. Therefore I presume that the "Sea of Sensors" set the fan speed 80% because there is no temperature reading available for the storage area sensors.
My current conclusion is that either;
1. the hard drives don't have a temperature sensor and I need to use four certified HP hard drives
2. the sensors on the Drive Cage Assembly ( HP 530946-001 ) are defective
3. the empty hdd bays need to be filled with blanks
To rule out all those possibles I would have to spend quite a bit of money and time and I therefore have the following questions.
Questions:
1. Do the HDD drives actually have a temperature sensor at all? If they have, is that temperature read by the Sea of Sensors?
2. Would iLO 2 display a temperature for the "storage area" even if there is no HDD drive in any of the 25 bays at all? If this is the case, this would tell me that the sensors of Drive Cage Assembly are defective.
3. Does filling the HDD bays with blanks make the temperature sensors start working? What I wonder is if the blanks have some electronic or similar or whether they are just blank pieces of plastic?
