Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > I would recommend you to not do that unless there is no other way out. Wholeheartedly agreed, thus looking to this list for guidance first :-) > > Please post dmesg output from the --assemble --force attempt, it might > contain reason why the assembly was unsuccessful. > It doesn't appear to be very telling. Note that per the provided '-E'(examine) output, event count is off a bit on some of the drives, and several report 'missing' #dmesg output md: bind<sdbk> md: bind<sdbl> md: bind<sdbm> md: bind<sdbn> md: bind<sdbo> md: bind<sdbp> md: bind<sdbq> md: bind<sdbi> md: bind<sdbr> md: bind<sdbs> md: bind<sdbt> md: bind<sdbj> md: md10 stopped. md: unbind<sdbj> md: export_rdev(sdbj) md: unbind<sdbt> md: export_rdev(sdbt) md: unbind<sdbs> md: export_rdev(sdbs) md: unbind<sdbr> md: export_rdev(sdbr) md: unbind<sdbi> md: export_rdev(sdbi) md: unbind<sdbq> md: export_rdev(sdbq) md: unbind<sdbp> md: export_rdev(sdbp) md: unbind<sdbo> md: export_rdev(sdbo) md: unbind<sdbn> md: export_rdev(sdbn) md: unbind<sdbm> md: export_rdev(sdbm) md: unbind<sdbl> md: export_rdev(sdbl) md: unbind<sdbk> md: export_rdev(sdbk) md: md10 stopped. md: bind<sdbk> md: bind<sdbl> md: bind<sdbm> md: bind<sdbn> md: bind<sdbo> md: bind<sdbp> md: bind<sdbq> md: bind<sdbi> md: bind<sdbr> md: bind<sdbs> md: bind<sdbt> md: bind<sdbj> md: md10 stopped. md: unbind<sdbj> md: export_rdev(sdbj) md: unbind<sdbt> md: export_rdev(sdbt) md: unbind<sdbs> md: export_rdev(sdbs) md: unbind<sdbr> md: export_rdev(sdbr) md: unbind<sdbi> md: export_rdev(sdbi) md: unbind<sdbq> md: export_rdev(sdbq) md: unbind<sdbp> md: export_rdev(sdbp) md: unbind<sdbo> md: export_rdev(sdbo) md: unbind<sdbn> md: export_rdev(sdbn) md: unbind<sdbm> md: export_rdev(sdbm) md: unbind<sdbl> md: export_rdev(sdbl) md: unbind<sdbk> md: export_rdev(sdbk) -- 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