RE: 2782 PCI-X Raid Disk Cotroller - batteries for cache battery pack

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FWIW I am looking at one right now - P/N 44L0313 3.6v 1500mAh NiMH - there's a 
bunch of them if you google on that - prices are $7-20 but who knows about 
warranty - the pack from IBM is supposed to last 3 years, unless you get in a 
warm environment - then the life is adjusted. 

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From: "Jones, John (US)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx> 

> Yeah, they have batteries for us now as well. I raised a stink with my 
> IBM rep, er, Channel Partner Manager, that IBM EU had the batteries but 
> the US didn't. IBM's internal processes must be really bad if they 
> can't do a timely inventory transfer: Grab a few dozen batteries and 
> 2-day ship them to the States for re-distribution to the regions/CEs. 
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> battery pack 
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> Perhaps IBM's battery shortage has been alleviated. My IBM CE said I 
> was SOL until late in March. Now he has them in and is waiting on me. 
> (Since our's is just in warning state and not scheduled to hit 
> "degraded" until after our next scheduled downtime - it's just going to 
> have to wait. 
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> I'm heading off to St Lucia Wednesday morning for an upgrade on a model 
> 800 (it's a tough job but someone has to do it ;-) ) and I just found 
> out 
> they don't have their failed disk cache battery on a 2782 PCI-X Raid 
> Disk 
> Controller replaced yet. Does anyone happen to know what sort of Ni-Mh 
> batteries are shrink wrapped inside IBM's little magic price increasing 
> plastic on the 2782 card - maybe a type I can buy somewhere and tape 
> together myself ? 
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> IBM Barbados are being difficult about just selling them a battery pack 
> and insist they pay them labor and US$60 freight in addition to US$152 
> they want for the battery pack. 
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