Re: 5580 Aux Cache Card goes Degraded 6 hours after a new ( IBM ) battery

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You may need to buy an new battery from IBM (spelled ouch....)

At the Franken Labs we are finding that many of the "refurbished" 
batteries are somewhat old and can be problematic.  Since they are 
lithium, we are having a small amount of trouble finding a source.  The 
local "Batteries Plus" etc will not mess with Lithium batteries due to 
the dangers of working them.  (They will gladly build or rebuild any of 
the nicad varieties)


Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 4/21/2010 11:17 AM, Kirk Goins wrote:
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> I have a client running an 825 as a DR box and No IBM maintenance. We
> recently upgraded some of the disk controllers to 5580s with refurbished (
> aka Used ) parts. This controller ran fine for some period of time initially
> be then turned off the cache. After replacing the battery and we viewed the
> Battery Info and it showed the 1000+ days until the warning etc and the card
> was running normally.  Looking at the logs and the drives they are now
> Degraded again and the battery shows failed once again after about 6hrs.
>
> I'm having the client swap batteries with the actual controller ( 2780 ) and
> see if the problem moves to that card. Anyone seen this before? Any other
> ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
>