Battery on PE 6300

[polymath5]

I've reconditioned this Perc2 battery in the past and it's taken about 10 hours. Currently it's been almost 14 hours and is still reconditioning.

I spoke to Dell TS. The guy there said he's seen it take 2 days which is, to me, way unacceptable.

What times have you experienced? I started one at the same time on another server and it took 9 hours. I'm just wondering if I should push for a tech to come and install a new battery.

It it's going to take a few more hours, I suppose I can live with it. But this is our primary SQL server and no cashing on writes is a killer to performance.

Thanks!

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[NickFerrar]

I'd say around 10 hours is normal for us, I generally just kick it off at 5pm or over a weekend though and leave it run and hope it's done by the next working day.

Mind you I've also run it during a normal day and no one complained the server was running slowly.

 

[polymath5]

Hi Nick,

2nd call to Dell TS, they said to reboot the box. Did it and battery shows as low charge. The popup now said it has a self charging battery that should charge in a few hours. Well 12 hours latter, still shows as low.

Dell is sending new battery today, I have some updating of the perc2 firmware/driver/fast.

Any recomendations on procedure for that?

Thanks again!

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