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I get to send the model 800 back to IBM in a week or two as it is coming off of lease. However, I will take the battery pack out and properly test it as running in a degraded state is a drag and I'd rather not deal with this again in the next couple of weeks if I can avoid it. Hard to believe that in a 24 month period you can have two sets of cache batteries fail, but it is what it is.

Thanks for the good counsel.

Pete


Harvell, Joel wrote:

I concur!!



Joel B. Harvell
Food Lion, LLC
(704) 633-8250 x2709
jbharvell@xxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Bolhuis
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:13 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Cache Battery question

May I make a suggestion here? For the price of that battery and the potential disaster if it were needed and actually bad, get another one!!

Just not worth the few dollars saved.

 - Larry

Haase, Justin C. wrote:
You're correct.  Force fail it, shut down, pull the battery plug, wait
a
min or two, plug it back in, all set.  For fun, check the voltage
while
you wait.


--
Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 8:30 AM
To: Midrange Mailing List
Subject: Cache Battery question

About 4 months ago I got a heads up that the cache battery on our
model
800 was soon going to fail.  So I read the FAQ's, located a
replacement
battery, forced the failure on the battery, replaced it and all was
well.  I thought.

Today we got an SRC 5703 8008 indicating the cache battery failed.  So
either I didn't replace the battery correctly OR the new battery has
actually failed.  I am guessing the former.  Is there a way to trick
the
system into thinking that the battery was replaced?  I am thinking
that
I can just run the -FORCE option on the BATTERYINFO macro to force the
failure, remove the battery (I'll test it just in case) and then put
the
battery back in.  Do I need to charge (or discharge) the battery to
make
it seem like it is a different battery or is just removing it for a
few
minutes to test it OK?

Thanks,

Pete Helgren



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