bin/167575: mfiutil(8) claims battery is OK even though it is worn out and wb cache is disabled

[Sean Bruno]

The following reply was made to PR bin/167575; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sean Bruno <seanbru at yahoo-inc.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, emaste at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/167575: mfiutil(8) claims battery is OK even though it is
 worn out and wb cache is disabled
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 06:26:25 -0700

 I would be more suspcious of the hardware you're using.
 
 My Dell boxes with mfi(4) seem to do just fine with failed batteries:
 
 bash-4.2$ sudo mfiutil show battery
 mfi0: Battery State:
      Manufacture Date: 9/22/2007
         Serial Number: 2015
          Manufacturer: SANYO
                 Model: DLU8735
             Chemistry: LION
       Design Capacity: 1900 mAh
  Full Charge Capacity: 369 mAh
      Current Capacity: 349 mAh
         Charge Cycles: 42
        Current Charge: 95%
        Design Voltage: 3700 mV
       Current Voltage: 4014 mV
           Temperature: 22 C
                Status: normal
       State of Health: bad