FreeBSD 10 USB3/Vantec NexStar HX4R

[Richard L. Houston]

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! 

Rich 




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