battery reconditioning

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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:49:47 +0700 (ICT)
Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole at cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > form time to time, there appears some error / warning
> > messages in console, which say this:
> > Sep 28 00:13:40 dell kernel: aac0: **Monitor** Battery needs
> > reconditioning.
> 
> What is your question?
> 
> It informs you you should change the battery used on the RAID
> hardware, so change the battery :)

It says reconditioning rather replacing. Some battery types benefit
from an occasional deep discharge.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/1.9/en/stormgmt/battery.html