Sometime Wednesday evening or night I am going to take the new machine, Inuvik.eskimo.com down, to replace the two drives I had intended to use for backup space as both have suffered a head crash at some point and have media errors that are too numerous to map-out with two spare tracks provided.  Because when used in a raid, you can’t use the Linux defective i-node to map them out manually, they are of no use to me, but they may be for someone else as they are 4TB drives with perhaps 300 512 byte blocks defective each.  They are seven years old so out of warranty (warranted for five years).

     This new machine presently has https://friendica.eskimo.com/, the Debian shell server debian.eskimo.com and the Manjaro shell server, manjaro.eskimo.com on it so these will be out of service while the drives are replaced.

     So if someone wants a couple of 4TB with about three hundred bad sectors that you need to manage manually let me know.  Preference will be given to Eskimo North customers, and then after that first come first serve.  Preferably, be close enough to Shoreline, WA to pick up, else be willing to pay for shipping.