RE: Cache battery replacement

Good advice. Had a cache battery die on a Model 720 and it took me all day
to figure out why things had ground to a snail's pace. The Model 520
actually gave out a shout when it wanted its diaper changed.

The new employer has a Model 250 (running V5R1). I don't know if it has a
cache battery or not (though I suspect that it does). SST doesn't show an
option '9' and I couldn't find anything about cache batteries in any of the
other options, though I could have missed it or misinterpreted it.

Seems I'm wrong guessing that there is cache on the 250. The System
Handbook shows 0 for L2 Cache. But, then, the Handbook only shows 6818
model disk units (17.54 gig) whereas ours has 6717 units (8+ gig).

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 8:43 AM
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Subject: Cache battery replacement

I strongly suggest checking your cache batteries on a regular basis and
when the time to warning gets down to 45 days or so, calling IBM and
ordering it then. Mine have been backordered a while and I am still
waiting on a replacement.

STRSST
1. Start a service tool
7. Hardware service manager
9. Work with resources containing cache battery packs
5=Display battery information

Resource name . . . . . . . . . . . : DC09
Serial number . . . . . . . . . . . : YL1088121002
Actual type-model . . . . . . . . . : 57B7-001
Unit ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : U789C.001.DQD0P72
Planar ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . : P1
Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : C9
Battery type . . . . . . . . . . . : Lithium Ion (LiIon)
Battery state . . . . . . . . . . . : No battery warning/error
Power-on time (days) . . . . . . . :
Adjusted power-on time (days) . . . :
Estimated time to warning (days) . :
Estimated time to error (days) . . :

Apparently some batteries are harder to get ahold of than others. At
least that's what he said when I called him and he said he was just
finishing a battery replacement somewhere else and I asked him where was
mine. He still doesn't have an ETA from his parts depot.

Rob Berendt