Purpose:
Controlling the power of a hard disk drive (HDD) can serve several purposes, each aimed at optimizing energy consumption, improving system performance, and extending the lifespan of the HDD.
This article is designed to help you manually control the power settings for HDDs on the SKY-8234D3.
Target Audience:
Advanchers and all users owning SKY-8234D3 platforms.
Guide Steps:
Note: the system payload on status of 12 SATA HDDs is as follows:
Disk power on: blue light on
HDD accessing: Blue light flashes
Disk power off: orange light on
Step1. Get HDDs power status
#ipmitool raw 0x2e 0xb4 0x39 0x28 0x00 0x00 $hdd_index
DISK1 : index 0
DISK2: index 1
…
DISK12: index 11
Command example:
#ipmitool raw 0x2e 0xb4 0x39 0x28 0x00 0x00 0x0
39 28 00 00
The above example show the HDD1 power state which is off according to the following table:
Table 1: Get device HW power state command
Step2. Set HDDs power
#ipmitool raw 0x2e 0xb4 0x39 0x28 0x00 0x00 $hdd_index $power_state
Command example:
#ipmitool raw 0x2e 0xb3 0x39 0x28 0x00 0x00 0x0 0x1
39 28 00
#ipmitool raw 0x2e 0xb4 0x39 0x28 0x00 0x00 0x0
39 28 00 01
The above example shows the HDD1 power state set to ON.
Table 2: Set device HW power state command
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