Re: Checking cache battery duration on vios

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do not believe that any drives in the CEC can be supported by a card 
with a battery.

The Large Cache card uses Flash and no batteries.
The split backplane options have no cache and thus need no batteries


        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 6/8/2015 8:55 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On non-guested SUSE linux on Power 6 we used these steps to check cache
> battery life:
> Start a putty session to that machine.
> - Run the utility by typing iprconfig
> - Select work with disk unit recovery
> - Select work with resources containing cache battery packs
> - Select the adapter and type 1.  Then press enter to display battery
> information.
>
> How do I do this on VIOS on Power 8?  Or, do even the drives in the CEC
> not have cache batteries?
>
> Rob Berendt