FreeBSD 10 USB3/Vantec NexStar HX4R

[Bernt Hansson]

On 2014-04-28 01:45, Richard L. Houston wrote:
> Hi all. First time poster and noob to FreeBSD.
> Apologies if this have been asked and answered.

> I have a FreeBSD 10 box setup and I plan on using it as a backup storage server. As this will not be a high IO system, just for storing backups, I would like to use a USB3 attached Vantec NexStar Hx4R 4 disk enclosure and use ZFS to zraid the disks. I am using ZFS on several Linux server as it stands and quite comfortable with that side of things.
>
> The issue I am running into is the following error when I bring the enclosure on line (From dmesg):
> ugen0.2: <vendor 0x152d> at usbus0
> umass0: <vendor 0x152d product 0x0551, class 0/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
> umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000
> umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT)
> umass0:3:0:-1: Attached to scbus3
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying command
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying command
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying command
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying command
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted
>
> I have applied all patches up to date. I searched around on the issue but could not find any resolution for the issue.
>
> Any help getting this unit to work would be much appreciated. The 4 disks already have a working ZFS pool created on another system. I have attached the unit to a second Linux, sorry to be using fowl language here ;), system with ZFS and the unit and ZFS work just fine.
>
> Thanks in advance!

I do not think you can setup ZFS on linux or solaris and then run it on 
fbsd.