RE: Impending cache battery pack failure

The battery actually doesn't "give up," the system just flags it as such
and then turns off cache once it thinks it should be dead - there's zero
logic as to when it flags, it's all based upon time.

DO NOT DO THIS ON A PRODUCTION SYSTEM:
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You **CAN** flag it as bad, turn off system, remove battery, re-install
battery, and turn system on and it'll be re-enabled for nearly 1000
days.  But the battery might not have enough juice when it's needed
sometime.

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Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5
Kingland Systems Corporation

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denis Robitaille
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:17 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Impending cache battery pack failure

We have had this message on several machines. As said in another post,
this message is generated after a fixed number of days regardless of the
real status of the battery.

You probably still have a few weeks ahead of you so you can schedule a
weekend no problem. 

As mention in other post, if the battery gives up, you will experience a
great degradation of performance.

Denis Robitaille
Directeur services technique TI
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>>> Pete@xxxxxxxxxx 2006-02-27 15:08:06 >>>
We had this message on the system console on our model 800 yesterday:

*Attention*  Contact your hardware service provider.

Which indicated that we will have to replace the battery soon.  How
soon?  The disks are still showing in operational status so I am not
sure what triggers the "impending" message.  Anybody have experience
with actually waiting until it failed and how long that took?  I'd like

to put off bringing the system down until the weekend but, if impending

meant hours, I'd better get on it tonight.

Thanks,

Pete Helgren

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