Hi All, i have a Raid 5 with 6 - 3 TB Devices. After a powerfailure raid didn't assemble automaticcaly so i force assembled it with mdadm --assemble --force --verbose /dev/md0 /dev/sd[abcdej]1 root@nas:~# mdadm --assemble --force --verbose /dev/md0 /dev/sd[abcdej]1 mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/sda1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 2. mdadm: /dev/sdb1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 5. mdadm: /dev/sdc1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 4. mdadm: /dev/sdd1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 0. mdadm: /dev/sde1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 3. mdadm: /dev/sdj1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 1. mdadm: forcing event count in /dev/sde1(3) from 101607 upto 101616 mdadm: forcing event count in /dev/sdc1(4) from 101607 upto 101616 mdadm: forcing event count in /dev/sdb1(5) from 101607 upto 101616 mdadm: clearing FAULTY flag for device 4 in /dev/md0 for /dev/sde1 mdadm: clearing FAULTY flag for device 2 in /dev/md0 for /dev/sdc1 mdadm: clearing FAULTY flag for device 1 in /dev/md0 for /dev/sdb1 mdadm: Marking array /dev/md0 as 'clean' mdadm: added /dev/sdd1 to /dev/md0 as 0 (possibly out of date) mdadm: added /dev/sda1 to /dev/md0 as 2 mdadm: added /dev/sde1 to /dev/md0 as 3 mdadm: added /dev/sdc1 to /dev/md0 as 4 mdadm: added /dev/sdb1 to /dev/md0 as 5 mdadm: added /dev/sdj1 to /dev/md0 as 1 mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 5 drives - not enough to start the array. So /dev/sdd1 was considered , when i ran the command again the raid assembled without sdd1 When i tried Reading Data after a while it stopped (propably when the data was on /dev/sdc dmesg showed this: [ 368.433658] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 368.433664] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] tag#0 Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [ 368.433669] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] tag#0 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error [ 368.433675] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] tag#0 CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 81 d8 00 00 00 08 00 00 [ 368.433679] blk_update_request: critical medium error, dev sdc, sector 557528 [ 368.433689] raid5_end_read_request: 77 callbacks suppressed [ 368.433692] md/raid:md0: read error not correctable (sector 555480 on sdc1). [ 375.944254] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE and the Raided stopped again. How can i force to assemble the raid including /dev/sdd1 and not include /dev/sdc (because that drive is possibly damaged now)? With a mdadm --create --assume-clean .. command? I'm using mdadm/zesty-updates,now 3.4-4ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed] on Linux version 4.10.0-21-generic (buildd@lgw01-12) (gcc version 6.3.0 20170406 (Ubuntu 6.3.0-12ubuntu2) ) Regards and thanks in advance Few other Ouputs: mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcdej]1 | egrep 'Event|/dev/sd' /dev/sda1: Events : 101616 /dev/sdb1: Events : 101616 /dev/sdc1: Events : 101616 /dev/sdd1: Events : 101607 /dev/sde1: Events : 101616 /dev/sdj1: Events : 101616 mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcdej]1 /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 8f33f56c:efd27830:4ac273aa:94b79171 Name : htpc:0 Creation Time : Thu Jan 16 20:36:01 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860268032 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Array Size : 14650667520 (13971.97 GiB 15002.28 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860267008 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262064 sectors, after=1024 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e41b2a30:94a9fa78:9b8e021d:ddb50b84 Update Time : Wed Nov 17 11:47:36 2021 Checksum : 7f1551a8 - correct Events : 101616 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : .AA... ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 8f33f56c:efd27830:4ac273aa:94b79171 Name : htpc:0 Creation Time : Thu Jan 16 20:36:01 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860268032 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Array Size : 14650667520 (13971.97 GiB 15002.28 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860267008 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262064 sectors, after=1024 sectors State : clean Device UUID : d32f3e56:ab5c727d:53de3db9:e0bfadee Update Time : Wed Nov 17 11:47:19 2021 Checksum : b08f725a - correct Events : 101616 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 5 Array State : AAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 8f33f56c:efd27830:4ac273aa:94b79171 Name : htpc:0 Creation Time : Thu Jan 16 20:36:01 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860268032 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Array Size : 14650667520 (13971.97 GiB 15002.28 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860267008 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262064 sectors, after=1024 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 23fc5428:02411e8f:ad843649:d8addbd0 Update Time : Wed Nov 17 11:47:19 2021 Checksum : 678b755 - correct Events : 101616 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 4 Array State : AAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x2 Array UUID : 8f33f56c:efd27830:4ac273aa:94b79171 Name : htpc:0 Creation Time : Thu Jan 16 20:36:01 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860268032 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Array Size : 14650667520 (13971.97 GiB 15002.28 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860267008 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Recovery Offset : 0 sectors Unused Space : before=262056 sectors, after=1024 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 09baa98d:5456baf2:925a9555:5b650e7f Update Time : Wed Nov 17 11:47:19 2021 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 8a031835 - correct Events : 101607 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 8f33f56c:efd27830:4ac273aa:94b79171 Name : htpc:0 Creation Time : Thu Jan 16 20:36:01 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860268032 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Array Size : 14650667520 (13971.97 GiB 15002.28 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860267008 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262056 sectors, after=1024 sectors State : clean Device UUID : bb060f08:741f38fd:6006b07e:f0a9c992 Update Time : Wed Nov 17 11:47:19 2021 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 4bbc1e74 - correct Events : 101616 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 3 Array State : AAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdj1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 8f33f56c:efd27830:4ac273aa:94b79171 Name : htpc:0 Creation Time : Thu Jan 16 20:36:01 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860268032 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Array Size : 14650667520 (13971.97 GiB 15002.28 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860267008 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262064 sectors, after=1024 sectors State : clean Device UUID : d5227db1:d9bde1c4:7b0fe2f1:4eccbbf0 Update Time : Wed Nov 17 11:47:36 2021 Checksum : 8df1042c - correct Events : 101616 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : .AAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing)