RE: memory pools Now Cache Battery !

The battery is available at Wal-Mart for $10.

It's a GE/Sanyo PCF01M.  This is for most of the older cache cards.
Search the archives for my trials and tribulations.

Justin C. Haase - Solution Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Galgano
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 1:35 PM
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Rob, 
This is not meant as a flame at all.  But not everyone works for a big
company where costs don't matter.  I own and run a small business and we
have 9 iSeries boxes in our data center.  We maintain them ourselves to
cut
costs.  We have a local supplier and quick availability to parts.  We
also
do work for plenty of smaller companies that don't need/cant afford an
iSeries professional.  These customers are generally very cost
conscience.
We treat their money like it is ours and try to recommend ways for them
to
save money here and there.  We have been in business for 17 years, so I
assume we are doing a few things right.  Our first customer is our
biggest.


There is nothing wrong with making recommendations to save a few bucks.
Our
rates are also very reasonable because I don't want the first thing in
the
mind of the client to want to shoe me out the door because all he sees
are
dollars flying out the door the minute I walk in.  The cost of sales are
very high, and I will take a happy, repeat customer any day.

Sorry my suggestions seem penny pinching and cheap.
cjg 


Carl J. Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
770-422-2995
www.ediconsulting.com
 
600 Kennesaw Avenue
Suite 400 
Marietta, GA  30060

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 2:21 PM
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Subject: RE: memory pools Now Cache Battery !

Yeah, but if it's under maintenance, who cares what it costs?
It's not like anyone would really try to run a business on a "Frankie"
or
some machine they bought off of eBay cheap.

But, I suppose for home use, then the Batteries Plus idea is a good tip.

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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I wrote a disk status monitor for our systems (and also runs on many of 
our
customers), that will report the status as degraded to my cell phone.
If you take the battery to batteries plus you can get the same battery
for 
a
few bucks compared to what IBM charges for the same part.
cjg 


Carl J. Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
770-422-2995
www.ediconsulting.com
 
600 Kennesaw Avenue
Suite 400 
Marietta, GA  30060

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cyndi Bradberry
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:25 AM
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Also, why didn't the system call home like it does with other problems ?

It calls and complains when a drive is going bad, why not the batery ?

Cyndi B.
Boise, ID

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