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No it shouldn't unless you are using a certain version of the Dell DTK for scripted builds where there was a significant delay (hours).
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No it shouldn't unless you are using a certain version of the Dell DTK for scripted builds where there was a significant delay (hours).

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How do I prevent this in the future? What version should I use or avoid?
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How do I prevent this in the future? What version should I use or avoid?

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Version 1.2 I believe was the delayed one, any of the newer version should be good.
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Version 1.2 I believe was the delayed one, any of the newer version should be good.

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Unable to determine. I built the raid from the CEREC6 controller bios. I have downloaded &nbsp;DTK ver 1.3 for future use.
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Unable to determine. I built the raid from the CEREC6 controller bios. I have downloaded  DTK ver 1.3 for future use.

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I am add 3 &nbsp;250 gig sata drives to a dell poweredge 1800. I ave configured them for a raid 5 array. It has been almost 24 hrs and the array is still building. Is this normal. The array card is a Cerec 6. I have never built a raid 5 array on this model before but in times past on other machines the bios handles it in a matters of seconds.
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I am add 3  250 gig sata drives to a dell poweredge 1800. I ave configured them for a raid 5 array. It has been almost 24 hrs and the array is still building. Is this normal. The array card is a Cerec 6. I have never built a raid 5 array on this model before but in times past on other machines the bios handles it in a matters of seconds.

Should buildinf a raid 5 array take 24 hours.

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