How to change xserve raid-card battery?

how to change xserve raid-card battery?

Xserve RAID Card Battery Replacement Instructions:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/0/MA277/en_US/Xserve_RAID_Card_Battery_DIY Instructions.pdf

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    Good afternoon, I have observed that the raid controller on my Xserve run conditioning cycle the batery every 3 months... is that normal?
    I appreciate a clarification on this.
    Thanks.
    Hipolito Lopes

    Hi Hipolito,
    3 months is normal. It's a shame you can't choose the time of day it does this but it's generally around the 6hour mark for the conditioning to take place.
    Hope that helps
    Beatle

  • RAID card battery conditioning - "Battery failed (other than expired)"

    OK, so if you log-in using the GUI, you get a warning telling you that battery conditioning is happening and that you shouldn't the server.
    However, if you log-in over SSH, as you might, for instance, with a headless Xserve, you don't get that warning. And then, if you restart more than a certain number of times, for instance because you're installing all the software updates that the server has missed while it hasn't been switched on, you end up in the following state:
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    Apple raidutil version: 1.2.0
    General Status: Issues Found
    Battery fault. See Battery Status below.
    Battery Status: Battery failed (other than expired)
    Controller #1: Hardware Version 2.00/Firmware E-1.3.2.0
    Write Cache disabled
    Plainly this is undesirable.
    Does anyone know how to reset the battery state, preferably without having to pull the server out of its rack and disconnect the RAID card battery?
    Also, since when was it in any way reasonable to tell a user that they can't shut their machine down for 24 hours? Even with a server, that's ridiculous - sometimes you just have to reboot.
    Kind regards,
    Alastair.

    FWIW, I just filed rdar://7653429 about the fact that terminal users don't get any warning of this, and rdar://7653468 about the fact that battery conditioning shouldn't force sysadmins to keep their machine running for the next 24 hours (since they might really need to shut it down, right now).

  • Apple Raid Card Battery Failed

    Hey guys !
    I have an early 2008 Mac Pro with a Raid Card and i get this message battery failure other than expired
    actually i got this message again about an year or so back ... so yes it happened before ... Apple replaced my battery
    Now im out of warranty coverage.
    Questions are :
    How does this affect my Raid Set ?
    Can my Raid Set survive without the battery ?
    If yes ... what are the downsides ?
    What can i do to manage the situation without changing again the battery ?
    Hope to get some advice soon on this matter
    Thank you very much.
    PS
    Down below i pasted some specs for my machine
    Mac Pro RAID Card:
      PCI Slot:          Slot-4
      Hardware Version:          1.00
      Firmware Version:          M-2.0.5.5
      Expansion ROM Version:          0018
      Shutdown Status:          Normal shutdown
      Write Cache Enabled:          No
      Battery Info:
      Firmware Revision:          1.0.2
      First Installed:          1/1/01 2:16 AM
      Last Date Conditioned:          2/24/12 3:47 PM
      State:          Faulted Battery
      Fault:          Battery failed (other than expired)
      Status:
      Charging:          No
      Conditioning:          No
      Connected:          Yes
      Discharging:          No
      Sufficient Charge:          No
    Drives:
    Bay 1:
      Product ID:          ST3300655SS  
      Serial Number:          3LM35BGK00009827PBXY
      Firmware Revision:          A005
      Type:          SAS
      SMART Status:          Unsupported
      Capacity:          300 GB (299,999,999,488 bytes)
      RAID Sets:          RS1
      Status:
      Assigned:          Yes
      Failed:          No
      Foreign:          No
      Missing:          No
      Reliable:          Yes
      Roaming:          No
      Spare:          No
    Bay 2:
      Product ID:          ST3300655SS  
      Serial Number:          3LM622YT00009923HP5Q
      Firmware Revision:          A005
      Type:          SAS
      SMART Status:          Unsupported
      Capacity:          300 GB (299,999,999,488 bytes)
      RAID Sets:          RS1
      Status:
      Assigned:          Yes
      Failed:          No
      Foreign:          No
      Missing:          No
      Reliable:          Yes
      Roaming:          No
      Spare:          No
    Bay 3:
      Product ID:          ST3300655SS  
      Serial Number:          3LM2Y49T00009827PAZV
      Firmware Revision:          A005
      Type:          SAS
      SMART Status:          Unsupported
      Capacity:          300 GB (299,999,999,488 bytes)
      RAID Sets:          R0-3
      Status:
      Assigned:          Yes
      Failed:          No
      Foreign:          No
      Missing:          No
      Reliable:          Yes
      Roaming:          No
      Spare:          No
    RAID Sets:
    R0-3:
      RAID Level:          Enhanced JBOD
      Capacity:          299.8 GB (299,798,364,160 bytes)
      Available Capacity:          Zero KB
      Drives:          Bay 3
      Volumes:          Vol-R0-3
      Status:          Viable (Good)
    RS1:
      RAID Level:          0
      Capacity:          599.73 GB (599,730,946,048 bytes)
      Available Capacity:          Zero KB
      Drives:          Bay 1, Bay 2
      Volumes:          R1V1
      Status:          Viable (Good)
    Volumes:
    R1V1:
      BSD Name:          disk1
      Capacity:          599.73 GB (599,730,946,048 bytes)
      Read Command Size:          2 MB
      Read Ahead Margin:          16 MB
      RAID Set:          RS1
      Status:
      Degraded:          No
      Inited:          Yes
      In Transition:          No
      Viable:          Yes
    Vol-R0-3:
      BSD Name:          disk2
      Capacity:          299.8 GB (299,798,364,160 bytes)
      Read Command Size:          2 MB
      Read Ahead Margin:          16 MB
      RAID Set:          R0-3
      Status:
      Degraded:          No
      Inited:          Yes
      In Transition:          No
      Viable:          Yes
    Hardware Overview:
      Model Name:          Mac Pro
      Model Identifier:          MacPro3,1
      Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
      Processor Speed:          3.2 GHz
      Number Of Processors:          2
      Total Number Of Cores:          8
      L2 Cache (per processor):          12 MB
      Memory:          8 GB
      Bus Speed:          1.6 GHz
      Boot ROM Version:          MP31.006C.B05

    The RAID card battery backs up the memory buffers on the card. These are needed for calculating the checksum blocks used in RAID 5 and similar schemes.
    If you are not running RAID 5 or similar, you do not need the battery. For that matter, you do not need the RAID card, either (unless you are running SAS drives).

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    Hi all
    I've had an xserve running for the last month or two now, it has been subject to frequent crashes...
    I have applied the latest 10.5.5 update and haven't had a crash for some time now.
    This morning I happened to have a look at the server monitor, and there was an error...
    I'm a little confused... especially when the xserve is also connected to an APC UPS unit.
    Should I be worried about this... is something lurking around the corner?
    *Any help/suggestions appreciated.*
    http://smam.net/xserve/raid-card.jpg
    Az

    This is covered in the RAID Utility User's Guide on page 12.
    Every 3 months the RAID card will discharge and recharge the battery. During this process, you will see the message.
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    Eric Miller

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    I have a Mac Pro with 2 quad core Intel Harpertown CPUs at 3.2GHz, and an Apple RAID card.  RAID Utility shows that the battery failed but in my research, nobody explains the difference between "Battery failed (code 0x#0 = 17)" (which is what I have) and "Battery failed (code 0x#0 = 18)" or ""Battery failed (other than expired)" (the latter two are what everybody talks about) and what the code numbers mean.  Speaking to a local AASP, they recommend that I just wait for a couple of days to see if it's doing the automatic 72-hour reconditioning operation since my Mac Pro is attached to a pretty hefty UPS (2200VA with nothing else attached) and power failures where I live are rare plus the write cache has been disabled so the RAID card is basically doing write-throughs at the moment.  But curiosity about the various, different error codes and messages is getting the better of me.  Thanks in advance.
    Also, what's worrying me (since RAID Utility is so vague) is this entry I found under "Hardware RAID" in System Profiler:
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      Connected:          Yes
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    As an update to this, once I replaced the RAID card battery (which was an absolute nightmare--the writer of the instructions at Apple obviously had never done it for real nor seen it done since they omit a lot of important things), the problem went away.  But I'm still intrigued about what the error codes mean.

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    Changing the BIOS setting for Portege S100 from JBOD to RAID0, I hit space on Exectute Creation and enter the string key in the manual and press "enter".
    The settings then return to existing settings and not the new RAID0 setting I selected.
    I have been at this most of the day / evening looking at various posts, but I can see nothing wrong with the details entered.
    It is the same as recorded in this link:-
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  • Repair Apple RAID card battery

    I have an Apple RAID card Mac Pro (Early 2009) RAID Card (top picture) with a bad battery. Unfortunately these batteries usually die after a few years and the replacement is not cheap. Looking on ebay, I can only get them from the US, but I live in Europe and it will cost me at least $150.
    From what I suspect reading the case, the battery is a 3.7 V Lithium battery, probably with built-in electronics that I can perhaps get for $5 from China. Any soldering work is not a problem. If I can replace the digitizer of an iPad mini, I can probably replace a battery too.
    The case of the battery looks like a regular aluminum box and the lit is probably just glued onto the battery. It's seems quite sturdy and would require some force to open. Has anyone ever opened an Apple Raid Card battery? I'm reluctant to apply much heat to open the case, though external heat might be ok. Any ideas? I'm aware of the risks.

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    RAID6 is a partial solution in that you start off with redundancy provided by two drives rather than RAID5 which has just one so RAID6 can survive two drive failures. It however only reduces the chances of having a complete RAID failure during a rebuild it does not eliminate it.
    Standard RAID5 or RAID6 therefore is being increasingly viewed as having reached a brick wall.
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    BTRFS is still pre-release especially its equivalent of RAID5 and RAID6 but it is getting closer. (RAID 0 and 1 for BTRFS are already considered ready for use.)
    ZFS is a similar 'new' file-system to BTRFS and at one point there was talk that Apple were going to switch to using ZFS but this no longer looks like happening. ZFS was a solution being developed and 'owned' by Sun Microsystems who are now part of Oracle. BTRFS is free open-source.
    I personally hope that Apple at some point implement BTRFS.
    There are some NAS manufacturers already implementing BTRFS however they are currently 'cheating'. NetGear for example use BTRFS on their current ReadyNAS OS 6.x models but rather than using a 'pure' BTRFS approach have a implemented BTRFS on top of a standard RAID5 system created by mdraid. They did this because as I mentioned above the official BTRFS RAID5/6 solution is not yet ready for real-world use. As a result you get some of the benefits of BTRFS like being more easily able to expand the size of a file-system, but you don't get the full checksum derived protection of BTRFS because it is not integrated to the RAID level. Thecus I believe have gone the same approach as NetGear. Synology and QNAP are still waiting for BTRFS to be 'finished' before implementing it.

  • Xserve / internal RAID card / Battery Failed (code 0x#0 = 18)

    Hi, RAID utility is reporting a battery problem. I have rebooted xserve once, the problem went away, the battery was charged but now I have the problem again.
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    Changing the battery is quite a big effort, so I really would like to avoid this. Any ideas, what the problem might be and how to solve it?

    Hi Lordlobby,
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    First let me apologize for not responding earlier to your response, I tend to get busy and then forget to check back here.
    Tod, the answer to your question is No, only one computer is accessing the xserve raid files at any one time and that is via Fibre Channel. However I do have the xserve raids set up as share points via ethernet.
    Maybe I should turn that off and only access the files with the one computer that can connect via fibre channel.
    I never thought of that. I will try that while I await for your answer, thanks again.
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    Re: Xserve Raid Mounts, Corrupt Directory tired of rebuilding directory
    Posted: Jun 27, 2010 1:25 PM in response to: Todd Buhmiller
    Are multiple computers accessing the same data on the RAID at the same time?
    If so then NO. This is the source of your data corruption and I'm surprised if you were able to get all your data back every time if this is how you've been running your system. Each fibre channel assumes it has full and sole control of every volume it has mounted, no data arbitration is practiced and data corruption will occur if this assumption is wrong.
    The only way this set-up will work is to use partitions or LUN masks so the volumes are accessed by one computer at any time. As long as one computer relinquishes control before another mounts it you will dodge arbitration issues but this is a dangerous game. If you screw up and mount an already mounted volume - and there is no easy way to tell if a volume is mounted - corruption will then occur. Sharing data simultaneous at fibre speeds is what XSAN does and to do this you need it.
    HTH,
    =Tod
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    +The xserve raids will mount automatically to any computer that I connect the qlogic fc switch to+
    This is source of the corruption to your data. Any computer that attaches to a drive/partition via fibre channel assumes that it alone is in control of the drive and data corruption is inevitable.
    +Is that the issue, should I disconnect the xserve from the fc switch and leave it connected via ethernet?+
    Short answer: YES. The ethernet connections are fine because the server is controlling the file arbitration through the sharing protocol. Fibre channel connections assumes complete control over the partition and no arbitration of the file access is performed. It's like two people independently driving trying to drive the same car to different locations.
    Depending on your set-up it is possible for the two machines to see and use different parts of the Xserve RAID storage but they cannot access the same areas without SAN doing the arbitration.
    Hope that's clear,
    =Tod

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    You have a few choices.
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    Parallels Server Edition - designed to run multiple server instances more costly around $2800
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    Virtual Box - Free..
    If you let us know what you are trying to do with Windows we can point you in the right direction.
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