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  3. July 2006

Re: Battery Cache

If the battery IS expired (i.e. WRKDSKSYS then F11 shows DEGRADED) then cache is not in use and you are safe for sure.
If the battery is ALMOST expired then yes a normal power down is supposed to flush the cache. Every CE I know however says "Force 'em dead" to be *SURE that no data exists in the cache. This comes to them from Rochester. If Rochester is telling them to do that, then I'M doing that too. Have I had problems? Nope, and I don't intend to!!
"The wise man learns from his mistakes, the truly Brilliant learns from someone else's!!" 

 - Larry

Bruce Collins wrote:

I looked thru the archives and found some older information on this but
I wanted to make sure that there is no new information that would
supersede this. 
We have to replace the Cache Memory Battery and I want to make sure that
if we do a normal power down that it will write the cache to disk and
when they replace the battery all will be well.

Thanks

Bruce "Hoss" Collins
IBM Certified Specialist - eServer i5 iSeries System Administrator V5R3
Cisco Certified Network Associate
AAA Cooper Transportation
Dothan, AL 36303
(334)793-2284 x2434

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