Hi all, My friend is running a Debian 8 server with 48TB raid5 array running fine since 2016, but suddenly it failed last night around 9PM, reporting four drives missing. See below all devices details. I'm suspecting his disk controller with four SATA ports failed, as the failed drives were attached on it. So, I believe these four missing devices (sdk,sdl,sdm and sdn) are in good shape. However they got out of sync with the array. I'm wondering how the array got out of sync when it was not able to access these devices ? Can we recover the array from this failure? Thanks, Romulo ======> Device details /dev/sda: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813775024 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e430cb46:00850bd2:71884e09:6e22e462 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 18 00:49:45 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : d3d92a07 - correct Events : 345459 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAAAAAA.A...A ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdb: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813775024 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : clean Device UUID : ac4f56cf:b673f905:f0c6a3a9:1849e5a7 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 18 00:49:45 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 75a89cb0 - correct Events : 345459 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAAAAAA.A...A ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdc: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813775024 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 05b22585:de8ae2ac:6729119b:4e39afda Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 18 00:49:45 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : f69868df - correct Events : 345459 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAAAAAA.A...A ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdd: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813775024 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 7297231d:29c34e60:fddf5ffa:f76afebc Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 18 00:49:45 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 83a06ed7 - correct Events : 345459 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 3 Array State : AAAAAAA.A...A ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sde: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813775024 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 89bf47be:d10dea17:5c617b73:ebe146b0 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 18 00:49:45 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 48c3d9ea - correct Events : 345459 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 4 Array State : AAAAAAA.A...A ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdg: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813775024 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 5c907ee2:2244a799:25149ac9:4ea1b892 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 18 00:49:45 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 27485340 - correct Events : 345459 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 8 Array State : AAAAAAA.A...A ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdh: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813805744 (3725.91 GiB 4000.67 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : clean Device UUID : bd71d7d9:608bd516:c259b37c:0f8cc1c1 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 18 00:49:45 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 7df2243f - correct Events : 345459 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 12 Array State : AAAAAAA.A...A ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdi: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813775024 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : clean Device UUID : ad430d83:57ebd2f5:805fbad5:e5415fa9 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 18 00:49:45 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 46c999b4 - correct Events : 345459 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 5 Array State : AAAAAAA.A...A ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdj: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813775024 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 53cd4e42:f5683802:a7ab6de5:564fb41e Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 18 00:49:45 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 9778fa8f - correct Events : 345459 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 6 Array State : AAAAAAA.A...A ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdk: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813784240 (3725.90 GiB 4000.66 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : active Device UUID : d270fc4a:dbb655be:208a0616:3870c9da Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Sun Feb 17 20:52:56 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 4912d41a - correct Events : 344497 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 10 Array State : AAAAAAAAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdl: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813794480 (3725.91 GiB 4000.66 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : active Device UUID : c9da71a4:4b3cd193:521be214:798d0e72 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Sun Feb 17 20:52:56 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : e2499f6 - correct Events : 344497 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 11 Array State : AAAAAAAAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdm: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813775024 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : active Device UUID : deaac574:97d9b939:5bbdc0a3:06439246 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Sun Feb 17 20:52:56 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : e7c312e6 - correct Events : 344497 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 7 Array State : AAAAAAAAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdn: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : d02e392c:6843c91f:cb0ab942:1466d37c Name : orion:0 (local to host orion) Creation Time : Sat Mar 12 20:26:30 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 13 Avail Dev Size : 7813775024 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Array Size : 46882646016 (44710.78 GiB 48007.83 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813774336 (3725.90 GiB 4000.65 GB) Data Offset : 219136 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=219048 sectors, after=43696 sectors State : active Device UUID : b76869a5:56675d3b:55170491:83002c92 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Sun Feb 17 20:52:56 2019 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 52e775f9 - correct Events : 344497 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 9 Array State : AAAAAAAAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing)