FreeBSD 10 USB3/Vantec NexStar HX4R

[Richard L. Houston]

----- Original Message -----

> 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.

That's fine, my point was that I can see all the disks including mounting an already existing ZFS pool on a different machine indicating that all the hardware is working. If I can import the pool great, if not, no problem either. 

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