Re: RAID Cache Battery Source

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

So that you don't mislead folks. The $8206 is the Purchase Order you 
need to issue to IBM. While this does give them the ability to invoice 
you this amount if the work is actually that hard, they would not in 
actual practice invoice you anywhere NEAR that amount to replace a cache 
battery. Athough I would still expect the total to easily exceed $500 
plus Parts.

Also to be clear, if you have no contract they will work on your system 
only between 8 and 5 M-F and may not get there the day you issue the PO 
either.

My first question is: Why no maintenance? Comparing the price of the 
system and the cost of maintenance and it's a no brainer! Besides that, 
things like this battery replacement are trivial when under maintenance. 
Lose a planar board and you're basically buying a new system.....

- Larry


Fred Horvat wrote:
> I did call IBM and their T+M was $8206 plus the battery.  No Joke... 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:49 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: RAID Cache Battery Source
>
> You should still be able to give IBM a PO for time and materials work.
> Search the archives for "Batteries Plus". There were lots of discussions
> about model numbers, etc.
>
> Paul Nelson
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fred Horvat
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:19 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: RAID Cache Battery Source
>
> The system is not under maintenance.
>
> I have a local battery place similar to Batteries+.  I would just schedule
> it for a Saturday to shut down, drive there, hope they can make/order a
> battery, drive back, and replace the battery.  If I have to order a battery
> then just do another shut down.  Doing a location search I saw that there is
> a Batteries+ near me so if the first battery place does not have it then I
> can always try Batteries+. 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jones, John (US)
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:36 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: RAID Cache Battery Source
>
> It should be covered by hardware maintenance.  It is on our systems.
>
> Failing that you can take the old battery pack to Batteries+ (
> http://www.batteriesplus.com/ ) and they'll build a replacement.
> Warning, though, that the B+ by me takes 7-10 days to do the build so you
> may have to run w/o cache, i.e. "degraded", for a bit and have 2 maintenance
> windows (1 to remove the old, 1 to install the new).
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fred Horvat
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:31 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RAID Cache Battery Source
>
> Hello,
>
>  
>
> On our 520 we just started getting a RAID Cache Battery warning stating we
> have 79 days before failure.  The system has a 5709 RAID card and the
> battery part number is 42R5070.  Anybody have any sources on where I can
> obtain the battery?  Via a couple of sources I've not had any luck in
> finding one.  I'd like to replace the battery on a weekend.  Worse case I
> shut the system down (after flushing cache of course) and pull the old one
> out and cross reference it to something else.
>