Critical Error Memory Retention Failure Unflushed Cache Lost
8i battery error message - Servers Applicable countries and regions Source RETAIN tip: H186060 Symptom A system equipped with a ServeRAID 8i controller could experience one of the following error messages: In ServeRAID Manager application or IBM Director or RaidEvtA.log: "The battery-backup cache device needs a new battery: controller 1" In the Controller n Config.txt: "Battery status ........Failed" On the display during POST: !!!CRITICAL ERROR: Memory retention failure, unflushed cache lost!!! Affected configurations The system may be any of the following: xSeries MXE-460, Type 8874, any model xSeries 460, Type 8872, any model xSeries 366, Type 8863, any model xSeries 306m, Types 8849 and 8491, any model xSeries 260, Type 8865, any model xSeries 206m, Types 8485 and 8490, any model The system is configured with the following ServeRAID option(s): ServeRAID-8i Controller: Option part number 13N2227, replacement part number 13N2233 Option part number 39R8729, replacement part number 39R8731 Solution ServeRAID 8i controller firmware fix in version 5.0-2 build 8263 and later available second quarter 2006. Workaround Swapping out the 8i battery with the battery from another 8i is recommended. The controller will operate at reduced performance. Additional information This error is caused by a firmware issue in which the battery charging mechanism is left in the wrong charging mode. The adapter firmware recognizes the wrong mode but does not correct it. The error is logged when the firmware determines the charger has been in the wrong mode for too long. The error will recur after each power/reset cycle, unplugging and replugging the battery will have no affect. The result of the error is that the system will turn off write-back mode and use only write-through mode. No user data will be lost as a result of this error, however, the performance will be impacted as the write-through mode is always used. Neither the battery no
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this critical error on our IBM Server using ServeRAID-8K.The Server rebooted and since this server was hosting our VM, several http://linuxtoolkit.blogspot.com/2011/01/memory-retention-failure-unflushed-cach.html of our VM was disconnected. Power-cycling didn't help. Bu thanks God there is onecool writeup by a system administration that encounter the same problem. His descriptionof the problem of https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/11068241/boot-error the ServeRAID-8K and how he tried to fix it isnicely documented. Tuesday Outage: It's RAID-tastic! To resolve the issues, we just update the RAID-8K firmware.See IBM ServeRAID-8i, 8k, 8k-l critical error and 8s BIOS and firmware update CD v5.2.0 (Build 16002) - IBM BladeCenter and System x After upgrading the firmware, the problem was fixed! Posted by kittycool at 1:08 AM Labels: Hardware, IBM 1 comment: Yair said... Thanks for the info, will try it and let you know if it helped. June 13, 2013 at 9:53 PM Post a critical error memory Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Follow by Email Total Pageviews Popular Posts xrdp_mm_process_login_response: login failed SSH Error : Permission denied (publickey, gssapi-with-mic,password) "Device eth0 does not seem to be present" on cloned CentOS VM Starting VNC server: no displays configured on CentOS 6 How to fix a broken yum for CentOS Connection activation failed Device not managed by NetworkManager Fixing Authentication is requried to set the network proxy used for download packages for CentOS 6 Usage of Environment Modules on CentOS and in Cluster High Performance Computing Adaptive Computing Cluster Connection Green 500 Supercomputer Sites Top 500 Supercomputer Sites HPC Advisory Council Linux HPC Rocks Cluster Scientific Computing World xCAT Cluster Toolkit MPI Tutorials Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory MPI Tutorial The MPI Standard Blog Archive ► 2016 (35) ► October (1) ► September (7) ► August (9) ► July (1) ► June (3) ► May (5) ► March (2) ► February (4) ► January (3) ► 2015 (68) ► December (3) ► November (4) ► October (3) ►
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