mfiutil stating battery not present after installing battery

[Gary Newcombe]

I have a ServeRAID M5014 SAS/SATA Controller in a server and have just
put an M5000 Series Battery directly onto the card.

I was just expecting the battery to charge and be able to see it, but
no joy after a few days and a restart. As far as I am aware, the
battery should just be detected. What am I missing here?

The server is 8.3-RELEASE and I get:

# mfiutil show adapter
mfi0 Adapter:
    Product Name: ServeRAID M5014 SAS/SATA Controller
   Serial Number: SV93301447
        Firmware: 12.0.1-0097
     RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID10, RAID50
  Battery Backup: not present
           NVRAM: 32K
  Onboard Memory: 256M
  Minimum Stripe: 8k
  Maximum Stripe: 1M

# mfiutil show battery
mfi0: No battery present

# dmesg | grep mfi
mfi0: <LSI MegaSAS Gen2> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0x97940000-0x97943fff,0x97900000-0x9793ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00 
mfi0: 21863 (408970429s/0x0020/info) - Shutdown command received from host
mfi0: 21864 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware initialization started (PCI ID 0079/1000/03c7/1014)
mfi0: 21865 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.0.33-0901
mfi0: 21866 (boot + 65s/0x0008/WARN) - Battery Not Present
mfi0: 21867 (boot + 65s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 
mfi0: 21868 (boot + 83s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 08(e0xff/s8)
mfi0: 21869 (boot + 83s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 08(e0xff/s8) Info: enclPd=ffff, scsiType=0, portMap=00, sasAddr=5000cca00a66b335,0000000000000000
mfi0: 21870 (boot + 83s/0x0002/info) - PD 08(e0xff/s8) FRU is 42D0628     
mfi0: 21871 (boot + 83s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 09(e0xff/s9)
mfi0: 21872 (boot + 83s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 09(e0xff/s9) Info: enclPd=ffff, scsiType=0, portMap=02, sasAddr=5000cca00a6993b1,0000000000000000
mfi0: 21873 (boot + 83s/0x0002/info) - PD 09(e0xff/s9) FRU is 42D0628     
mfi0: 21874 (boot + 83s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 0a(e0xff/s10)
mfi0: 21875 (boot + 83s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 0a(e0xff/s10) Info: enclPd=ffff, scsiType=0, portMap=01, sasAddr=5000cca00a645a65,0000000000000000
mfi0: 21876 (boot + 83s/0x0002/info) - PD 0a(e0xff/s10) FRU is 42D0628     
mfi0: 21877 (boot + 84s/0x0008/WARN) - BBU disabled; changing WB virtual disks to WT
mfi0: [ITHREAD]
mfi0: 21878 (408970578s/0x0020/info) - Time established as 12/16/12 10:56:18; (145 seconds since power on)
mfid0: <MFI Logical Disk> on mfi0
mfid0: 570296MB (1167966208 sectors) RAID volume '' is optimal


Has anyone seen this sort of behaviour before or have any pointers?

Thanks,
Gary.