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AFF A700s - battery is experiencing a critical failure

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Applies to

  • AFF A700s

Issue

One or more of the following messages apear:
WARNING:  The battery is experiencing a critical failure:
- Battery is not present
Without a working battery, the system cannot retain data
during a power outage, which can result in data loss.
Power down the system and verify that the battery is
properly installed.
To ignore this failure and boot the system in a mode
where data loss might occur, press 'c' followed by 'Enter'
 
CAUTION: Using this appliance without NVRAM
battery backup coupled with a power
failure condition CAN CAUSE DATA LOSS.
Are you sure you want to continue (y or n)? y
Proceeding without NVRAM battery backup.
***OS2SP configured successfully***Feb 09 09:07:26 [storage1-netapp-hnd4_1:nv.none:EMERGENCY]: No NV device has been detected.
 
LOADER-A> boot_ontap
Loading X86_64/freebsd/image1/kernel:0x200000/14891680 0x1033aa0/13845536 Entry at 0xffffffff802d6c30
Loading X86_64/freebsd/image1/platform.ko:0x1d68000/3034816 0x204d000/477856 0x20c1aa0/583568
Starting program at 0xffffffff802d6c30
NetApp Data ONTAP 9.4P3
ACPI APIC Table:

flags 0x40 flags 0x20Tue Feb  9 09:12:22 GMT [nvram.hw.initFail:CRITICAL]: NVRAM hardware initialization failed: NVRAM10 bq24725 device is not detected.
Tue Feb  9 09:12:22 GMT [nvram.hw.initFail:CRITICAL]: NVRAM hardware initialization failed: NVRAM10 bq40z50 device is not detected.
nvd0:
NVMe namespace
nvd0: 122104MB (250069680 512 byte sectors)
nvd1:
NVMe namespace
nvd1: 122104MB (250069680 512 byte sectors)

 

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