What kind of hardware is this (server & array)?

Very Best Regards,

Emery Rudolph, MS
Manager
IT-ETI-PS Enterprise UNIX Services
University of Maryland
(301) 405-9379
http://www.umd.edu

[University of Maryland]

From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:UM-LINUX@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Yehuda Katz
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 4:17 PM
To: um-linux
Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Mirror.umd down?

What is the current HD usage?
I am a current student (PhD, so I will be here for a while) and I have some 
spare hardware if necessary that we could use to revive it. Having a local 
mirror is really helpful.

- Y

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Ken Tossell 
<k...@tossell.net<mailto:k...@tossell.net>> wrote:
The mirror server's had a combination of a failed OS disk, some
filesystem trouble and a broken SATA controller. We're not sure why it
locked up last Friday, but it's down right now because the SATA
controller had its very frequent intermittent failure after the server
was brought back up yesterday. We hoped the controller would start
working after a remote reboot, but the machine never came back online.

Even after we get the server running, there's a good chance of downtime
with the current hardware. We are running with zero redundancy in the /
disk, and the remaining drive is identical to the one that failed. Also,
the SATA controller could break and disconnect the main software storage
disk array at any time. There's a ~90% chance that the array won't come
up after the next power outage. If that happens, we'll need to manually
disconnect and reconnect the power several times in order to get the
server going.

I do some maintenance (adding mirrors, mostly), but since I'm no longer
at the university, other people have been taking care of all of the
issues that need local attention.

Ken

On 07/31/2014 01:33 PM, Yehuda Katz wrote:
> I believe the mirror is run by Ken Tossell 
> (k...@tossell.net<mailto:k...@tossell.net>).
>
> - Y
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Moshe M. Katz 
> <mmk...@umd.edu<mailto:mmk...@umd.edu>> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> There's been very little traffic on this list recently (correction, none
>> at all), so I hope that people are still around.
>>
>> The mirror.umd.edu<http://mirror.umd.edu> server appears to be down, and the 
>> only published
>> email address is "mirror@hostname", which is, of course, down with it.
>>
>> Does anyone know who the current maintainer is and/or what the story is
>> here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Moshe
>>
>> --
>> Moshe Katz
>> mmk...@umd.edu<mailto:mmk...@umd.edu>
>> (301) 867-3732<tel:%28301%29%20867-3732>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Jeff Stuckman 
>> <stuck...@umd.edu<mailto:stuck...@umd.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>>  Do you know who runs this mirror?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Nicholas Rossomando 
>>> [mailto:nross...@terpmail.umd.edu<mailto:nross...@terpmail.umd.edu>]
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:55 AM
>>> *To:* Jeff Stuckman
>>> *Subject:* Re: Red Hat: What we've found so far
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, right now, zero data from UMD. The mirror is down and has been for
>>> several days now. If it comes back up, it's definitely ideal for however
>>> far back it goes.
>>>
>>> Noted, and will do.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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