Re: Battery Cache

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Bah!  Once the battery has failed there IS no cache :-)  As a 
consequence nothing in it needs to be flushed. On a 270 it's likely a 
2778 or 2748 RAID card. For the 48's (and earlier) batteries plus will 
have them on the shelf for the 78's they can make one for under $20.

The issue I see is Joe's sever lack of console.   Cursor in upper right 
(as I recall, I haven't used a twinax console in years) means no 
connection. You need to check the cables and such until you get cursor 
upper left.  Then you should have console, el-quicko.

 - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis


On 8/24/2010 7:43 PM, Harman, Roger wrote:
> But the critical part is flushing the cache so you don't lose data.  It has been discussed here before - I don't remember the specifics (our CE always does these for us) - check the archives.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:13 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Battery Cache
>
>
>    Joe,
>
> You will be running slower until you replace the battery....
>
> I shut down my box, drove over to the Batteries Plus store with the
> battery pack and they built me one in about 10 minutes for $15.
>
> Pete Helgren
> Value Added Software, Inc
> www.valadd.com
>
>
> On 8/24/2010 3:39 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:
> > It's evidently that time of year.  We lost power here and I had to shut
> > down my model 270, which hasn't seen an IPL in months.  Well, when it
> > came up a couple of issues appeared.
> >
> > First, my console won't connect.  Not sure what that's all about and not
> > sure how to diagnose it.  The tube is connected with the cursor in the
> > upper right corner.  CTL01 shows DSP01 in Vary on pending status, and
> > nothing else.  But my startup procedure fires up TCP/IP and that is
> > working just fine.
> >
> > More problematic is that I got the dreaded CPPEA12 and STRSST says that
> > my battery cache is in error condition.  I don't remember seeing any
> > warnings, but that's probably my bad.  In any case, can anyone remind me
> > of just how much pain I'm going to be in (I seem to remember it's a
> > relatively painless process, but not one to be undertaken lightly - you
> > need to know where to exert a little extra pressure).  Also, anybody
> > know the going rate for one of these puppies?  Is there a "home
> > enthusiast" alternative?  :)
> >
> > Joe