FreeBSD 10 USB3/Vantec NexStar HX4R

[Richard L. Houston]

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

> On Apr 27, 2014, at 5:51 PM, Richard L. Houston < rhouston @ rlhc
> .net> wrote:

> > ----- 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.
> The HX4R is fairly new and I haven’t seen anything about it on the
> list except for now, so no worries :)

> >>> 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.
> I use the same and have been able to set up a raidz using the same
> enclosure and some random samsung and wd drives and it seems to work
> just fine (10.0-RELEASE)

> >>> Any help getting this unit to work would be much appreciated. The
> >>> 4
> >>> disks already have a working ZFS pool created on another system.
> Created on Linux may be the issue…

> >>> 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.
> Sure, it may work fine on another linux box if the raidz was created
> with linux …

> >> I do not think you can setup ZFS on linux or solaris and then run
> >> it on fbsd .
> I have not tried this personally, but it’s true per the rumor mill
> and other forums easily fund with a web search.

> > 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.
> I believe the proper procedure here would be to wipe the disks and
> recreate a pool on FreeBSD .
> This thread might help if they’re being difficult: https ://forums.
> freebsd .org/ viewtopic . php ?&t=42766

> Cheers,
> Chris

Thanks Chris but the issue is I can not see the disks on FreeBSD at all. All I get is the error I posted in the original message. My point about seeing the zpool on Linux was that the enclosure is working fine. Apologies if I was not clear that the disk were not accessible on FreeBSD . I thought that was evident from the error. Again sorry for the confusion. My fault for not being clear on the issue. 

To clarify: I plug the HX4R into my FreeBSD 10 system to a USB3 port but I can not see the disks ( 1TB Dell Branded Western Digital) I get the following errors found in 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 

Other the /dev/ada0 I dont seem to see any other disk devices. 

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