On 09/21/2017 08:55 AM, Vojtěch Kletečka wrote: > Requested command outputs are at the end of the mail and verbose > version of mdadm assembly yielded nothing new as I have already tried > --force and/or --run for assembling. For the sake of completeness I > also provide versions of mdadm and kernel. One of your devices is failing on superblock write. You cannot save it, at least not with that USB interface. Leave it out of your assemble command. Use --force. mdadm --assemble --verbose --force /dev/md127 /dev/sd[ce]1 {Adjust if device letters change.} Report what it prints. If it works, immediately back up what you need (there won't be a rebuild). After you recover any critical data, blow away and reconstruct the entire array using proper SATA ports. Include in your system's boot scripts the following: for x in /sys/block/sd[whatever]/device/timeout ; do echo 180 > $x ; done Phil -- 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