[Info-vax] rx6600 - update

[Chris Scheers]

Hans Vlems wrote:
> First of all tanks to all who helped me out with the previous question.
> The problem with the rx6600 appears to be the pci cardcage. I replaced it with the rx3600 cage and the rx6600 powered on and stayed working.
> It has 14GB memory and four dual core cpu's (1.6 GHz). 
> 
> The cardcage with the problem has an ill fitting iLO board, that may be worth looking into.
> 
> Question: the bad cardcage is also fitted with an SAS RAID controller (PCIe board?). If the battery is dead would that stop the rx6600 to power up properly?
> Hans

It is hard to know without knowing which RAID card is involved.

With that in mind, generally, Compaq/HP RAID cards with a dead battery 
still work.  They just disable write caching.  For some configurations, 
this really slows things down, but they should still work.

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