Re: 5722 SRC27638008 - Battery Pack, right?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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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 ?
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
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> message: 1
> 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
>
> www.frankeni.com
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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
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> > Fax: (952) 736-5801
> > Toll Free: (888) RJSSOFT