Re: Cache battery error and 1011 840D SRC

Figured, my fingers don't always work either. :-) Well if it's complaining about SPCN and you're not using SPCN then it's probable that something in the service processor is not happy. It's quite possible that nothing will become of it but it could also be a problem. Hard to tell :-)

- Larry

On 9/21/2010 9:59 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:

Thanks, Larry

It was 840D - fast finger syndrome.

The system is running. Is there something that will not work because of
the 10xx code? I don't know where to look next, and, of course, there's
no longer any support on this box.

I appreciate your caveat - I waited a good long time after power down
before pulling the plug. After that I took the card out. Did this twice.
Second time, waited a minute and a half, thinking I might fool it into
still using this battery. Nope. So time to order things.

All looks good, no error light on the control panel now. TELNET took
forever to come up, but it's one of the last things in STRTCP - and disk
is very slow!! Doh!

We'll order a battery pack and go from there.

Vern

On 9/21/2010 8:36 PM, DrFranken wrote:

Vern,

Well any 10xx code means power and/or SPCN loop issues. In this case
the 840D says your SPCN loop is messed up. (You mention 804d and 840d
but 804d isn't valid) Hitch is that from your description you don't have
an SPCN Loop (i.e. port J15 on the back isn't connected.)

As to the cable on the 2763 it MUST be at the back of the card (closest
to the frame of the machine) or it won't IPL. Seems unlikely that this
would produce the 1011 840D but I guess it could.

One thing I would be VERY careful about when pulling the RAID card with
a questionable battery is that I absolutly did a normal power off and
wait to be certain the green light is no longer blinking or you risk
cache data loss and could toast the system ASP.

As to the battery failing like that? Yep seen it plenty. Had one just a
few weeks ago that showed over 300 days to warning one day and flat died
the next day. That's an actual battery failure. Remember the days
counter is just a good estimate of how long the battery should be
reliable, it's not actually dead at that point by IBM marks it so
because it's deemed no longer reliable.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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9/21/2010 8:36 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:

Hi - need some counsel. We have a 270 with a 2763 RAID card. It
reported the battery in error - it was replaced maybe in April. It
reports 142 days used, 0 to error. That seemed really strange to be so
short.

I thought I'd just take it out and put the card back in. The first time,
I didn't disconnect the battery pack. When I started the machine, I got
a 1011 804D SRC, which is something about a VPD mismatch - looking
farther, I see it is about processor 4 - this doesn't have more than 1
processor.

Now I did disconnect the cable to the card - there are two connections
there - I reconnected to the connector nearer the end of the card, at
the back of the machine. I actually forget which it was in - should it
be on the connector more toward the center of the card? Only one cable,
by the way.

So do we maybe have a bad 2763? Or just a bad battery pack and have to
get another?

When I get the 1011 840D I have just pressed the white power button, and
it proceeds nicely to IPL and starts everything - albeit VERRRRY slowly!

Thanks for any help
Vern