Re: 5722 SRC27638008 - Battery Pack, right?

Buy the right controllers and there are no more batteries!

Your dell servers are lucky! I have had several customers and even one of my own Non-i servers dump the cache on RAID cards causing damage.

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On 2/4/2014 9:42 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:

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??"

:-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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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

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Richard Schoen
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