Re: Age of model 810 -- MIDRANGE-L

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)
The model 810 was first announced in early 2003.
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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
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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