Re: Age of model 810

[Jeff Kennedy <jkennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had that problem on my 820 during a software upgrade and the speed 
without cache was slower than a dead snail.

Jim Franz wrote:

> my mistake on the age - i do think some model was upgraded into the current
> 810.
> This company came off a mainframe into iSeries about 3 - 4 years ago.
> Hopefully this is not the normal cache battery life?
> jim
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Al Barsa" <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 6:33 PM
> Subject: Age of model 810 (was: disk cache batteries)
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> > The model 810 was first announced in early 2003.
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> > Al
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> > Al Barsa, Jr.
> > Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
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> > e gads
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> > Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!
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> >             "Jim Franz"
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> > We finally got thru our fix of disk cache batteries (iSeries 810 only
> > perhaps 4 years old).
> > The only clue we had was that the system became extremely slow during a
> > conversion test, running about 3 times slower. The CE claimed it shouldn't
> > have hit us that hard. I think otherwise - we were running large cpylib,
> > many chgpf's of big files, and adding 7 gig of files w/RPG to existing 10
> > gig.
> > Manager asking if I can prove it was the batteries (this was our final
> >    
> test
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> > before go-live).
> > Can anyone else confirm losing cache batteries could cause such an effect?
> >
> > btw- our only clue of hardware problem was wrkdsksts & F11 screen showed
> > disks in "degraded" status. After an ipl, we did get following 2 msgs in
> > qsysopr queue:
> > * *Attention*  Contact your hardware service provider now.
> > Message ID . . . . . . :   CPPEA12       Severity . . . . . . . :   99
> > A critical system hardware problem has occurred. Critical Message Handler
> >    has been run.
> > Message ID . . . . . . :   CPP8988       Severity . . . . . . . :   90
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> > jim franz
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