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Sandshark
Aug 04, 2019Sensei
RD5200 and RN4200V2 fan control under OS6
I was looking throuugh the logs of my RD5200 converted to OS6 and found hundreds of entries such as this:
Jul 31 01:15:53 RD5200A readynasd[6308]: failed setting new fan speed target: Permission denied
Jul 31 01:16:03 RD5200A readynasd[6308]: failed setting new fan speed target: Permission denied
Since I have been having trouble with the RD5200 controlling the fan speeds (I have to leave it up to the BIOS), I figured I was onto something. It turns out that while my RN4200V2 units (with the same motherboard) seem to control temperature better, they have similar log entries.
What I discovered is that the native OS 6 systems as well as all the other NAS I've converted to OS6 from 4.2 (Pro6, Pro2, Ultra4, Ultra6) all seem to store this information in /sys/devices/platform/w83627ehf.2576/hwmon/hwmon1 or similar, where the directory under "platform" varies depending on the hardware.
The files have names like these:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Aug 1 07:00 fan1_beep
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Aug 1 07:00 fan1_input
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Aug 1 06:43 fan1_min
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Aug 1 07:00 fan1_pulses
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Aug 1 06:43 fan1_target
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Aug 1 07:00 fan1_tolerance
But the RD5200 and RN4200V2 have those files directly in /sys/devices/platform/w83627ehf.2576, not the /hwmon/hwmon1 sub-directory thereof. Ah HA! Maybe I found the problem. /hwmon/hwmon1 and all directories under it do exist, just no fan, power, etc. control files
So, I tried to copy the files into /hwmon/hwmon1. No dice -- access denied. Since I'm root and shouldn't have access denied anywhere, I can only assume something has a lock on the directory. Readynasd, maybe? Should I stop readynasd and try again? But if it is readynasd, and readynasd is the process getting the access denied errors in the log, what's up with that? Maybe it's just a wrong error -- should be "file not found"? lsof doesn't seem to think anything is locking the directory.
I have an RN4200V2 not yet in service I can experiment with. A factory default, or even restoring the internal USB boot drive from image would not be a tragedy. But before I stumble around, I was wondering if anyone can confirm/deny my suspect and potential solution.
Yeah, I know; "not supported". But a clue sure would be nice.
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- Retired_Member
have you test 4200V2 sensors configuration in RD5200 in OS6?
#cp /etc/frontview/sensors/RN4200V2.conf /etc/sensors.d/system.conf
#systemctl restart readynasd
- SandsharkSensei
After I moved the fans from the SAS backplane connectors to the motherboard, yes, I changed to the 4200V2 (same as 4200 and 3200) configuration file. It helped with everything but the fans. If the 4200V2 didn't share the same issue with the file location, I'd think I didn't do enough to make the switch. Could be I still didn't, though, if that is the right location for the files on the 4200V2. Unfortunately, the error message doesn't tell me where it's trying to write the information.
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