RE: RAID Cache Battery Source

["Fred Horvat" <horvat@xxxxxxxx>]

Some one on the list was kind enough to send us one of their batteries to
save us the trouble on the weekend of having to shut the system down.  It's
a Sanyo portable phone battery.  Exact part number I don't know as I don't
have the battery in front of me but I can go to the boss and get the number
off the battery if anybody is interested.  

We ordered a new battery yesterday for $12 plus shipping from Interstate
Batteries.  Next weekend we'll replace the unit.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces+horvat=kroy.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+horvat=kroy.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jones,
John (US)
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:02 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: RAID Cache Battery Source

Obviously YMMV.  My local B+ takes longer.  I dropped off a battery pack
August 31 and have yet to get the call saying it's ready. 

--
John A. Jones, CISSP
Senior Analyst, Global Information Security Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
tel: +1-630-455-2787 fax: +1-312-601-1782 john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:48 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: RAID Cache Battery Source

Fred,  both Batteries Plus and a local battery store have built replacements
for me.  It took both of them less than 10 minutes to do it.

I shut down the system (on a Saturday) drove to the store, got the battery
built and was back in business in a hour.  I'll be surprised if they can't
do it quickly.

Pete Helgren

Fred Horvat wrote:
> The system is not under maintenance.
>
> I have a local battery place similar to Batteries+.  I would just 
> schedule it for a Saturday to shut down, drive there, hope they can 
> make/order a battery, drive back, and replace the battery.  If I have 
> to order a battery then just do another shut down.  Doing a location 
> search I saw that there is a Batteries+ near me so if the first 
> battery place does not have it then I can always try Batteries+.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jones, John (US)
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:36 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: RAID Cache Battery Source
>
> It should be covered by hardware maintenance.  It is on our systems.
>
> Failing that you can take the old battery pack to Batteries+ ( 
> http://www.batteriesplus.com/ ) and they'll build a replacement.
> Warning, though, that the B+ by me takes 7-10 days to do the build so 
> you may have to run w/o cache, i.e. "degraded", for a bit and have 2 
> maintenance windows (1 to remove the old, 1 to install the new).
>
>
> --
> John A. Jones, CISSP
> Senior Analyst, Global Information Security Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
> tel: +1-630-455-2787 fax: +1-312-601-1782 john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fred Horvat
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:31 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RAID Cache Battery Source
>
> Hello,
>
>  
>
> On our 520 we just started getting a RAID Cache Battery warning 
> stating we have 79 days before failure.  The system has a 5709 RAID 
> card and the battery part number is 42R5070.  Anybody have any sources

> on where I can obtain the battery?  Via a couple of sources I've not 
> had any luck in finding one.  I'd like to replace the battery on a 
> weekend.  Worse case I shut the system down (after flushing cache of
> course) and pull the old one out and cross reference it to something
else.
>  
>
> Thanks
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
> Fred Horvat
>
> horvat@xxxxxxxx
>
> 216-426-5692
>
>  
>
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