nick@osf.org (Nick Dokos) (04/15/91)
We have an RS/6000, model 320, that fails a battery test that is run by cron. I was wondering if anybody else knows anything about this. The test is /etc/lpp/diagnostics/bin/test_batt. It is run from cron at 4am every morning. About two weeks ago, it started failing with the console message: Ioplanar battery test failed. Diagnostics were run and a keyboard problem was detected with the cause shown as either the keyboard (probability 70%) or the ioplanar (probability 30%). The battery test continued to fail but later runs of the diagnostics showed no problem with the keyboard. Field service replaced the ioplanar with no effect on the battery test and later changed a (the?) battery and the battery test succeeded - for 3 days... It has now failed two days in a row. Questions: a) Anybody seen this? b) Anybody know what exactly the test is testing? c) Can it be a software bug in the test rather than a hardware bug? d) I am trying to use the machine to do some work, rather than having it in pieces on my desk. The rest of the system seems to be working OK with miscellaneous problems that I think are setup problems (NFS and NIS). The question is what is the chance that this will cause catastrophic failures in the near future? I would appreciate any hints. Email is fine (nick@osf.org or uunet!osf.org!nick) if you think that the question is of limited interest. -- Nick Dokos (nick@osf.org) Systems Engineering (uunet!osf.org!nick)