Another Fan Question

[backwoodstech2]

I recently purchased an 80mm Noctua NF-A8 ULN fan for the Rock NAS case along with a Noctua 2pin to 3pin adaptor. Fan is indeed 12v.

Plugging it in I get nothing...no fan movement at all. I'm using a recent version of Armbian if that matters.

I believe I see this device under /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon4/ since is see pwm1 as well as pwm1_enable. 

Code:

cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon4/pwm1_enable

returns 1 

Code:

/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon4$ cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon4/pwm1

returns 0

Code:

echo 255 | sudo tee /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon4/pwm1

still no fan response

Code:

cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon4/pwm1

to verify my adjustment but this still returns 0. Fan is motionless.

At this point i'm ready to give up and connect to the boards 12v out but I have questions there.

The original cable it comes with splits to 2 different SATA connection leads, leading me to believe this is not a conventional connection? This is for the CON15 DC out header.

the Noctua includes a big 4pin adapter but I'm not confident in what to order. I also didn't see anything relevant in the Pine store for accessories. 

FYI I'm currently not running any SATA drives as I recently opted for NVMe (mostly due to availability).

any help please!!??

I also tried everything in this forum post as well as the pwm1 settings failed to apply (even with root) until this was completed:

Code:

echo disabled > /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/mode

Rockpro64 CPU fan (pine64.org) (also cross-posted here: fancontrol - pwm1 keeps resetting to 0 - Odroid N2/N2+/HC4 - Armbian Community Forums)

I was able to get the fan speed settings to apply  but fan remains unresponsive. I tried the fan in every pwm mode available.

OS is OMV7 (Debian Bookworm, Armbian variant; Kernel: Linux 6.1.63-current-rockchip64)