Re: Cache battery questions

[John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At one time, we had a 620.  LOADS of screws.  A helpful(?) interlock 
that killed
power if a shroud covering the back got moved.  Power supply failed on 
it.  Took
a long time for the CE to get to the thing.  Outer panels and then loads of
screws on an inner panel and finally access to where power supply was. 
Obviously, IBM believed it would never fail, to make getting to it such 
a task.
CE said he had never had to replace one before.

John McKee

Quoting Roger Harman <RHarman@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Glad everything turned out OK.
>
> Sometimes the CE's work really quickly.  A couple of weeks ago I had a
> new CE,  BTW.. I have socks older than him ;-(( , out to replace a drive
> cage on our 720.  From kicking the users off to them being back
> operational was less than 45 minutes.  If you've ever had to take the
> side panel off of a 720, you know that alone could take that much time -
> a jillion screws.  He did a great job.  Plus, it was very heartening to
> hear him say that he really liked the iSeries boxes.
>
>
> > > > jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 04/16/2009 7:30:01 PM >>>
> I met the CE today, by accident.  He showed me the new cache battery.
> Looked
> like three AA cells.
>
> One other bit of fun:  he referred to the machine as AS/400 <g>.
>
> An hour was allocated, but system was IPLed less than twenty minutes
> after power
> down completed.
>
> He talked to the sys admin as he faulted the battery.  Thanks to
> previous
> threads on this subject, and the link on the procedure, I knew what was
> going
> on.  Thanks!
>
> John McKee
>
> Quoting Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Our local county government did the exact same thing with no
> > IBM CE on location. I understand that it took over a week for
> > the recovery due to some pesky backup issues.
> >
> > This is a large LPAR machine running the entire county operation.
> >
> > There were several job changes/deletions in the following months.
> >
> > rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Yes, follow the cache flushing directions carefully.  I hear of a
> customer
> > > site that the IBM CE didn't and they ended up having to do a full
> system
> > > restore.
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