EqualLogic ps6100

Dear all,

I face an error on storage box.

Critical hardware component failure, as shown below. C2F power module has insufficient hold time.

 


any advice necessary to solve the problem of the said.

Thank you and best regards,

Jafar

Flash module cache done power reference to battery which failure, will fuel your controller long enough for him to write the contents of its memory cache to a device in the controller. This way once you retrieve your failure, you will have not lost all data in memory and had not yet been written.  On the PS6100 this 'battery' is a capacitor on the controller board so you'll need potentially a new module controller so this is bad. Old firmware can cause this message too so pull diagnosis and check with a tech support to confirm.

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