[luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

[Warren Togami]

Nov  9 13:11:23 videl kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Nov  9 13:11:23 videl kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=53035364, sector=53035232
Nov  9 13:11:23 videl kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01 (hdc),
sector 53035232
Nov  9 13:11:23 videl kernel: raid1: Disk failure on hdc1, disabling
device.
Nov  9 13:11:23 videl kernel: ^IOperation continuing on 1 devices
Nov  9 13:11:23 videl kernel: raid1: hdc1: rescheduling block 53035232
Nov  9 13:11:23 videl kernel: md: updating md0 RAID superblock on device
Nov  9 13:11:23 videl kernel: md: (skipping faulty hdc1 )
Nov  9 13:11:23 videl kernel: md: hda1 [events: 00000021]<6>(write)
hda1's sb offset: 57576832
Nov  9 13:11:23 videl kernel: md: recovery thread got woken up ...
Nov  9 13:11:23 videl kernel: md0: no spare disk to reconstruct array!
-- continuing in degraded mode

Apparently one of the disks in the RAID1 array of videl.ics.hawaii.edu
failed during November.  I am hoping for donations to help pay for the
replacement disk and other upcoming server upgrades that are needed. 

Donations from the United States of America can be tax deductible
because donations go through the Hawaii Open Source Education
Foundation, an IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit charity group.  Visit
our site at http://www.hosef.org and also see
http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu to see what else the group's server
infrastructure hosts.

If you have Paypal, you can send donations directly to me at
warren at togami.com.  Unfortunately I can only accept money from
"Verified" Paypal members.  Otherwise visit http://www.hosef.org and
click on "Donations" to read about the other donation options.

I personally put $570 into Videl + Fedora servers this year, $60 of
which were reimbursed by earlier donations from the mainland USA and
Europe to Fedora via hosef.org.  Currently Videl is showing its age with
growing performance problems and constantly high load averages, so we
are in the process of adding a 3rd HOSEF server to the University of
Hawaii ICS department server room that was donated by Pricebusters.  

Your donations are needed in order to keep these three servers in
operation as parts fail, and add much more mirror storage capacity.  It
is my goal to have at least 1TB of mirror storage after we install the
3rd server.  Videl's current 120GB disk cannot hold much more, and I am
always needing to delete more parts of distributions in order to save
space.  (Next to go is Mandrake and Debian PowerPC.)

I suspect we would need at least $1,200 in order to purchase the minimum
1TB of storage needed for the mirror and repair Videl's one broken
disk.  Please help!

Currently two Fedora users from the mainland USA and one HOSEF member
have donated a combined total of $61.

Thank you,
Warren Togami
warren at togami.com
http://www.fedora.us
Fedora Linux Project
http://www.hosef.org
Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation