Re: Battery Cache

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If the battery IS expired (i.e. WRKDSKSYS then F11 shows DEGRADED) then 
cache is not in use and you are safe for sure.

If the battery is ALMOST expired then yes a normal power down is 
supposed to flush the cache. Every CE I know however says "Force 'em 
dead" to be *SURE that no data exists in the cache. This comes to them 
from Rochester. If Rochester is telling them to do that, then I'M doing 
that too. Have I had problems? Nope, and I don't intend to!!

"The wise man learns from his mistakes, the truly Brilliant learns from 
someone else's!!"

 - Larry

Bruce Collins wrote:
> I looked thru the archives and found some older information on this but
> I wanted to make sure that there is no new information that would
> supersede this. 
>
> We have to replace the Cache Memory Battery and I want to make sure that
> if we do a normal power down that it will write the cache to disk and
> when they replace the battery all will be well.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bruce "Hoss" Collins
> IBM Certified Specialist - eServer i5 iSeries System Administrator V5R3
> Cisco Certified Network Associate
> AAA Cooper Transportation
> Dothan, AL 36303
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