[Info-vax] Problems configuring SA-controller

[Craig A. Berry]

On 3/1/21 10:29 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 3/1/21 8:16 AM, Joukj wrote:
>> If that is the case the device becomes worthless: The batteries do not 
>> charge anymore and it cannot be configured anymore.
> 
> Try taking the battery to a local battery specialist store.  I took the 
> cell(s) out of the HSG60 / HSG80 that I had in and they were able to 
> replace what ended up being two cells without any problem.  I think I 
> was in the store for about 15 minutes.

Remember the battery situation is just a guess; it seems plausible to me
that the RAID controller might use the cache as scratch space during a
configuration change, but I don't know that.  Surely someone here does.
  So don't rule out that there is some magic incantation for MSA$UTIL
that you haven't guessed yet.

If you do explore the battery route, there are various YouTube videos of
folks cutting into their HP(E) cache battery assemblies and replacing
the batteries.  Cutting is involved because they are glued together and
not made to be serviced.  It looks doable, though I've never done it myself.

You can of course buy batteries.  I don't know if this is the right one
for your system, but it's an example of what's out there:

<https://www.islandco.com/381573-001-refurbished-cache-battery-hp-smartarray-p400-hp-integrity-p800-ad335a-openvms?search=cache%20battery>