All, I have had an array that has run for a couple years and wanted to add a couple drives. I went with a LSI HBA 9200-8i in IT Mode and a couple SAS drives from Server Parts Deals.

I added them to the array, and formatted them, and all seemed fine.

I noticed that one of my old SATA drives showed "disabled. contents emulated" So I shut down the server to check the cable connections in case I bumped something while I was in there.

When I brought the server back up, both my new SAS drives are showing "Wrong."

Now the array won't start, as I have three unusable drives in it, and I'm wondering what the heck to do.

Any ideas here? all drives have 0 errors on short SMART test.

Unfortunately, I did not capture diagnostics before the restart.

shitbox-diagnostics-20250728-0958.zip

disk's capacity changed, and it wasn't just a few bytes, e.g.:

[id] => HUH721008AL5204_1DH03ZYZ_35000cca26c389a0c

[size] => 7814026532

[idSb] => HUH721008AL5204_1DH03ZYZ_35000cca26c389a0c

[sizeSb] => 7681188080

This is not normal, and it suggests either a disk or controller issue