Greetings to all Phil solved my problem with his help A bit diffusing was the problem of my partedMagic different /dev/sdx sorting: QNAP Original: sda=ZXT sdb=S13 sdc=P3E sdd=ZB6 sde=GJN sdf=PSN sdg=WD sdh=1NH Parted Order=rebuildversion: sda=ZB6 sdb=P3E sdc=S13 sdd=ZXT sde=GJN sdf=PSN sdg=WD sdh=1NH so: mdadm --create --assume-clean --verbose /dev/md0 --chunk=64 --metadata=0.9 --level=5 --raid-devices=8 /dev/sdd3 missing /dev/sd{b,a,e,f,g,h}3 mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 --uuid=30358eff:ac9e6122:004291dc:e0ebbc5e mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf dd /dev/md0 /BACKUP/Pallmert.bin worked and did the job and is currently saving the image for further inspection. Thanks a lot! Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html