FreeBSD 10 USB3/Vantec NexStar HX4R

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Bernt Hansson wrote:

> 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 the goal, but this a hardware error.  Most likely the enclosure 
needs a USB quirk or patch.