Hi, Thanks for the guidance as the current state has at least changed somewhat. BTW Sorry about Life getting in the way of tech. =) Reason for my delayed response. -sudo mdadm -I /dev/sdc1 mdadm: /dev/sdc1 attached to /dev/md480, not enough to start (1). -sudo mdadm -D /dev/md480 /dev/md480: Version : 1.2 Raid Level : raid0 Total Devices : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent State : inactive Working Devices : 1 Delta Devices : 1, (-1->0) New Level : raid5 New Layout : left-symmetric New Chunksize : 512K Name : GRANDSLAM:480 UUID : 20211025:02005a7a:5a7abeef:cafebabe Events : 78714 Number Major Minor RaidDevice - 8 33 - /dev/sdc1 -sudo mdadm -I /dev/sdd1 mdadm: /dev/sdd1 attached to /dev/md480, not enough to start (2). -sudo mdadm -D /dev/md480 /dev/md480: Version : 1.2 Raid Level : raid0 Total Devices : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent State : inactive Working Devices : 2 Delta Devices : 1, (-1->0) New Level : raid5 New Layout : left-symmetric New Chunksize : 512K Name : GRANDSLAM:480 UUID : 20211025:02005a7a:5a7abeef:cafebabe Events : 78714 Number Major Minor RaidDevice - 8 49 - /dev/sdd1 - 8 33 - /dev/sdc1 -sudo mdadm -I /dev/sde1 mdadm: /dev/sde1 attached to /dev/md480, not enough to start (2). -sudo mdadm -D /dev/md480 /dev/md480: Version : 1.2 Raid Level : raid0 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent State : inactive Working Devices : 3 Delta Devices : 1, (-1->0) New Level : raid5 New Layout : left-symmetric New Chunksize : 512K Name : GRANDSLAM:480 UUID : 20211025:02005a7a:5a7abeef:cafebabe Events : 78712 Number Major Minor RaidDevice - 8 65 - /dev/sde1 - 8 49 - /dev/sdd1 - 8 33 - /dev/sdc1 -sudo mdadm -I /dev/sdf1 mdadm: /dev/sdf1 attached to /dev/md480, not enough to start (3). -sudo mdadm -D /dev/md480 /dev/md480: Version : 1.2 Raid Level : raid0 Total Devices : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent State : inactive Working Devices : 4 Delta Devices : 1, (-1->0) New Level : raid5 New Layout : left-symmetric New Chunksize : 512K Name : GRANDSLAM:480 UUID : 20211025:02005a7a:5a7abeef:cafebabe Events : 78714 Number Major Minor RaidDevice - 8 81 - /dev/sdf1 - 8 65 - /dev/sde1 - 8 49 - /dev/sdd1 - 8 33 - /dev/sdc1 -sudo mdadm -R /dev/md480 mdadm: failed to start array /dev/md480: Input/output error --- NOTE: Of additional interest... --- -sudo mdadm -D /dev/md480 /dev/md480: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Tue Oct 26 14:06:53 2021 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 18446744073709551615 Raid Devices : 5 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu May 4 14:39:03 2023 State : active, FAILED, Not Started Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Consistency Policy : unknown Delta Devices : 1, (4->5) Name : GRANDSLAM:480 UUID : 20211025:02005a7a:5a7abeef:cafebabe Events : 78714 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State - 0 0 0 removed - 0 0 1 removed - 0 0 2 removed - 0 0 3 removed - 0 0 4 removed - 8 81 3 sync /dev/sdf1 - 8 49 1 sync /dev/sdd1 - 8 33 0 sync /dev/sdc1 --- -watch -c -d -n 1 cat /proc/mdstat --- Every 1.0s: cat /proc/mdstat OAK2023: Mon May 22 01:48:24 2023 Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md480 : inactive sdf1[4] sdd1[1] sdc1[0] 46877239294 blocks super 1.2 unused devices: <none> --- Hopeful that is some progress towards an array start? It's definately unexpected output to me. I/O Error starting md480 Thanks! SA On Thu, 2023-05-18 at 11:15 +0800, Yu Kuai wrote: > I have no idle why other disk shows that device 2 is missing, and what > is device 4. > > Anyway, can you try the following? > > mdadm -I /dev/sdc1 > mdadm -D /dev/mdxxx > > mdadm -I /dev/sdd1 > mdadm -D /dev/mdxxx > > mdadm -I /dev/sde1 > mdadm -D /dev/mdxxx > > mdadm -I /dev/sdf1 > mdadm -D /dev/mdxxx > > If above works well, you can try: > > mdadm -R /dev/mdxxx, and see if the array can be started. > > Thanks, > Kuai