Re: power down Dell PE1400 and PE350

["Marco Peereboom" <slash@peereboom.us>]

Both of them will power down if you turn on ACPI support in the BIOS.
I have used both of them and they work.

/marco

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Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 17:19
Subject: power down Dell PE1400 and PE350


> I have a Dell PowerEdge 1400 and PowerEdge 350.  I'm unable to power them
down
> with a "shutdown -p -h now".  They halt and I have to pull the plug on the
> PE350 and push the button on the PE1400.  Both servers are running
OpenBSD3.1.
> I tried setting machdep.apmhalt=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf on the PE1400, but
that
> didn't help.  I'm not sure if it's a BIOS issue or an OpenBSD one.  I
haven't
> had any other OS's installed on either of these servers so I'm unsure if
they
> would power down under a different OS.  The BIOS on both servers doesn't
have
> any Power Management settings as do my other Dell OptiPlex OpenBSD
machines
> that power down with no problem.  If anyone has had luck powering down
these
> Dell servers or any other Dell PowerEdge server I'd appreciate help
getting
> mine to do the same.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John Hines