RE: Cache Battery question

["Harvell, Joel" <jbharvell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I concur!!


 
Joel B. Harvell
Food Lion, LLC
(704) 633-8250 x2709
jbharvell@xxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Bolhuis
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:13 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Cache Battery question

May I make a suggestion here?  For the price of that battery and the 
potential disaster if it were needed and actually bad, get another one!!

Just not worth the few dollars saved.
 
  - Larry

Haase, Justin C. wrote:
> You're correct.  Force fail it, shut down, pull the battery plug, wait
a
> min or two, plug it back in, all set.  For fun, check the voltage
while
> you wait.
>
>
> --
> Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
> IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
> Kingland Systems Corporation
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 8:30 AM
> To: Midrange Mailing List
> Subject: Cache Battery question
>
> About 4 months ago I got a heads up that the cache battery on our
model
> 800 was soon going to fail.  So I read the FAQ's, located a
replacement
> battery, forced the failure on the battery, replaced it and all was
> well.  I thought.
>
> Today we got an SRC 5703 8008 indicating the cache battery failed.  So
> either I didn't replace the battery correctly OR the new battery has
> actually failed.  I am guessing the former.  Is there a way to trick
the
> system into thinking that the battery was replaced?  I am thinking
that
> I can just run the -FORCE option on the BATTERYINFO macro to force the
> failure, remove the battery (I'll test it just in case) and then put
the
> battery back in.  Do I need to charge (or discharge) the battery to
make
> it seem like it is a different battery or is just removing it for a
few
> minutes to test it OK?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pete Helgren
>
>