Unraid ver 7.2.4

Motherboard SuperMicro c7h170-m

Host Bus Adapter SAS9207-8i H3-25412-00J

I am unable to start my array.

On the Main Tab, the start button is greyed out. Best the grey start button, "Too many and/or missing disks!"

Before performing the following, I took a screenshot of the array. See attached.

This issue arose shortly after I thought I had successfully shrunk my array by removing a 380GB HDD. Dev 1 WDC_WD3200JS-57PDB0_WD-WCAPD1857080 (sde)

I thought that process went successfully.

That drive remains connected.

A day later, I had errors on Dev 1 WDC_WD3200JS-57PDB0_WD-WCAPD1857080 (sde). I have had some issues with this drive/connector in the past. In the past, to fix, I had reconnected the drive and cable, rebuilt the drive, and continued.

Now, I can't do this because I cannot get the array started.

I think the drives might be assigned incorrectly. How can I look where the system is expecting the drives to be?

Thanks

tower-diagnostics-20260417-1400.zip

Edited April 17Apr 17 by OriginalFlavor

Apr 17 13:59:26 Tower kernel: ata5: limiting SATA link speed to 3.0 Gbps

Apr 17 13:59:28 Tower kernel: ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 1 SControl 320)

Apr 17 13:59:29 Tower kernel: ata5: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)

Apr 17 13:59:29 Tower kernel: ata5.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)

Apr 17 13:59:40 Tower kernel: ata5: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)

There are issues with detecting this device, probably the missing disk, possibly connected to the onboard SATA port 5. Check/replace its cables and post new diags