Re: Cache Battery Swap ?

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck,

I think everybody agrees that if you want to swap the battery
concurrently, you need to fail the cache....

The discussion is about needing to fail the cache if you shut the
system down to swap the battery.

Charles

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Chuck Lewis
<chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As noted and from what I've read from IBM and seen our CE do, like you
> say, fail the battery and it dumps the cache. He's done this multiple
> times without ever taking the system down.
>
> Chuck
>
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>
> DrFranken / Dan...
>
> I've heard stories about IBM CE's pulling the battery with the system
> shut down without failing the battery first and wiping out systems.
> Even happened to one of our uniform rental boxes, but that's not my
> team so I don't have any details. Rob Berendt at Dekko mentions such
> stories in a couple of posts in the archives...
>
> perhaps PWRDWNSYS *IMMED vs PWRDWNSYS *CNTRLD makes a difference...
>
> or perhaps the hardware itself makes a difference...
>
> If it were me, I'd fail the cache first :)
>
> Charles
>
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