RE: 5722 SRC27638008 - Battery Pack, right?

[Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I shake my head in disgust every time I'm forced to replace one of these. 

This is still one of the dumbest design decisions ever made by IBM and I get reminded of it every year :-)

I have Dell Servers that are 4+ years old with no cache battery issues ever on the disk controllers.

Has this been improved on the newer equipment ?

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date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:48:13 -0500
from: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: 5722 SRC27638008 - Battery Pack, right?

So I'm looking for that date in the future when Richard posts: "My power blipped for just a second and the system crashed. When i went to bring it up, it complains that it needs to clear the ASP. What happened??"

	:-)

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On 2/4/2014 3:53 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:
> FWIW.
>
> Probably not recommended practice but.............
>
> I had a cache battery go out that was less than a year old or so it seemed.
>
> Brought down the system, removed battery for 2 minutes, put it back in and it's running fine.
>
> Not totally convinced these batteries need replacement every year :-)
>
> Did you do a WRKDSKSTS
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
> RJS Software Systems Inc.
> Where Information Meets Innovation
> Document Management, Workflow, Report Delivery, Forms and Business 
> Intelligence
> Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Web Site: http://www.rjssoftware.com
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