Could this USB disk have been crippled by Seagate to not work as
a SATA device?

The disk I am trying to mount is pulled out of an external
"Seagate Expansion" USB drive, PN 9SE2N9-500, and plugged directly into
the SATA on an motherboard.

I have a single ffs2 2.8T partition.

It works and mounts fine as a USB device:

umass0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Seagate Desktop" rev 
2.00/1.46 addr 4
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus2 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0
sd0 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <Seagate, Desktop, 0146> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 2861588MB, 4096 bytes/sector, 732566644 sectors

I have quite a lot of data on it already.  It has proven to be reliable.

root@tara:~:0# df -k /mnt
Filesystem  1K-blocks      Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a   2907224112 1239228824 1522634088    45%    /mnt

As a SATA device, on the other hand, when I try to mount, I get this in the 
dmesg:

root@tara:log:0# mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
mount_ffs: /dev/wd0a on /mnt: Invalid argument

Jun 21 18:19:18 tara /bsd: wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 128 of 128-143 (wd0 bn 
128; cn 0 tn 2 sn 2), retrying
Jun 21 18:19:21 tara /bsd: wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 5
Jun 21 18:19:21 tara /bsd: wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
Jun 21 18:19:21 tara /bsd: wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 128 of 128-143 (wd0 bn 
128; cn 0 tn 2 sn 2), retrying
Jun 21 18:19:25 tara /bsd: wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 4
Jun 21 18:19:25 tara /bsd: wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
Jun 21 18:19:25 tara /bsd: wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 128 of 128-143 (wd0 bn 
128; cn 0 tn 2 sn 2), retrying
Jun 21 18:19:29 tara /bsd: wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 3
Jun 21 18:19:29 tara /bsd: wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 3
Jun 21 18:19:29 tara /bsd: wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 128 of 128-143 (wd0 bn 
128; cn 0 tn 2 sn 2), retrying
Jun 21 18:19:32 tara /bsd: wd0: soft error (corrected)
Jun 21 18:19:32 tara /bsd: wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 2
Jun 21 18:19:32 tara /bsd: wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
Jun 21 18:19:32 tara /bsd: wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0 bn 16; 
cn 0 tn 0 sn 16), retrying
Jun 21 18:19:36 tara /bsd: wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 1
Jun 21 18:19:36 tara /bsd: wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 1
Jun 21 18:19:36 tara /bsd: wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0 bn 16; 
cn 0 tn 0 sn 16), retrying
Jun 21 18:19:40 tara /bsd: wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 0
Jun 21 18:19:40 tara /bsd: wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 0
Jun 21 18:19:40 tara /bsd: wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0 bn 16; 
cn 0 tn 0 sn 16), retrying
Jun 21 18:19:43 tara /bsd: wd0: transfer error, downgrading to DMA mode 2
Jun 21 18:19:43 tara /bsd: wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
Jun 21 18:19:43 tara /bsd: wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0 bn 16; 
cn 0 tn 0 sn 16), retrying
Jun 21 18:19:47 tara /bsd: wd0: soft error (corrected)
Jun 21 18:19:47 tara /bsd: wd0: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 4
Jun 21 18:19:47 tara /bsd: wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4
Jun 21 18:19:47 tara /bsd: wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 512 of 512-527 (wd0 bn 
512; cn 0 tn 8 sn 8), retrying
Jun 21 18:19:50 tara /bsd: wd0: soft error (corrected)

The fdisk command is having trouble too.

root@tara:log:1# fdisk -u wd0
Do you wish to write new MBR? [n] y
Writing MBR at offset 0.
fdisk: error writing MBR: Invalid argument
root@tara:log:0# fdisk -i wd0
Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n] y
Writing MBR at offset 0.
fdisk: error writing MBR: Invalid argument

Disklabel output is different...........

As a USB device ...........

root@tara:log:0# disklabel wd0
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: Desktop
duid: 15aa58bb3c195357
flags:
bytes/sector: 4096
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 45600
total sectors: 5860533168
boundstart: 0
boundend: 5860533168
drivedata: 0

16 partitions:
#                size           offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  a:        732566640                0  4.2BSD   8192 65536    1
  c:       5860533168                0  unused

As a SATA device ...........

root@tara:~:0# disklabel sd0
# /dev/rsd0c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: Desktop
duid: 15aa58bb3c195357
flags:
bytes/sector: 4096
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 45600
total sectors: 732566644
boundstart: 0
boundend: 732566644
drivedata: 0

16 partitions:
#                size           offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  a:        732566640                0  4.2BSD   8192 65536    1
  c:        732566644                0  unused


OpenBSD 5.1 (GENERIC.MP) #207: Sun Feb 12 09:42:14 MST 2012
    dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 2135490560 (2036MB)
avail mem = 2064539648 (1968MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0xf0000 (39 entries)
bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD version "6.00 PG" date 10/26/2010
bios0: OEM OEM
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP HPET MCFG APIC
acpi0: wakeup devices PEX0(S5) PEX1(S5) PEX2(S5) PEX3(S5) PEX4(S5) PEX5(S5) 
HUB0(S5) UAR1(S5) UAR2(S5) IGBE(S5) USB0(S3) USB1(S3) USB2(S3) USB3(S3) 
USB4(S3) EHC1(S3) EHC2(S3) AZAL(S5) PCI0(S5)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz
acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xe0000000, bus 0-255
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz, 1800.24 MHz
cpu0: 
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE,NXE,LONG,LAHF
cpu0: 512KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu0: apic clock running at 1333MHz
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor)
cpu1: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz, 12005.94 MHz
cpu1: 
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE,NXE,LONG,LAHF
cpu1: 512KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 3 (application processor)
cpu2: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz, 12005.94 MHz
cpu2: 
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE,NXE,LONG,LAHF
cpu2: 512KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu3 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu3: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz, 12005.94 MHz
cpu3: 
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE,NXE,LONG,LAHF
cpu3: 512KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 4 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins
ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 4
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 1 (PEX0)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 2 (PEX1)
acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 3 (PEX2)
acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX3)
acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX4)
acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX5)
acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 4 (HUB0)
acpicpu0 at acpi0
acpicpu1 at acpi0
acpicpu2 at acpi0
acpicpu3 at acpi0
acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature is 98 degC
acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Pineview DMI" rev 0x02
vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel Pineview Video" rev 0x02
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
intagp0 at vga1
agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x10000000
inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 4 int 16
drm0 at inteldrm0
"Intel Pineview Video" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured
uhci0 at pci0 dev 26 function 0 "Intel 82801H USB" rev 0x04: apic 4 int 16
uhci1 at pci0 dev 26 function 1 "Intel 82801H USB" rev 0x04: apic 4 int 21
ehci0 at pci0 dev 26 function 7 "Intel 82801H USB" rev 0x04: apic 4 int 18
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 "Intel 82801H HD Audio" rev 0x04: msi
azalia0: codecs: Realtek ALC888
audio0 at azalia0
ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801H PCIE" rev 0x04: msi
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
em0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000 (82583V)" rev 0x00: msi, address 
00:03:1d:0b:49:01
ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 "Intel 82801H PCIE" rev 0x04: msi
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
em1 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000 (82583V)" rev 0x00: msi, address 
00:03:1d:0b:49:02
ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801H PCIE" rev 0x04: msi
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
em2 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000 (82583V)" rev 0x00: msi, address 
00:03:1d:0b:49:03
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801H USB" rev 0x04: apic 4 int 23
uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801H USB" rev 0x04: apic 4 int 19
uhci4 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801H USB" rev 0x04: apic 4 int 18
ehci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801H USB" rev 0x04: apic 4 int 23
usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0
uhub1 at usb1 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
ppb3 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xf4
pci4 at ppb3 bus 4
pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801HBM LPC" rev 0x04
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801HBM IDE" rev 0x04: DMA, channel 0 
configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
pciide0: channel 0 disabled (no drives)
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801HBM SATA" rev 0x04: DMA, channel 
0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI
pciide1: using apic 4 int 19 for native-PCI interrupt
wd0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0: <ST3000DM001-9YN166>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 2861588MB, 5860533168 sectors
wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6
wd1 at pciide1 channel 1 drive 0: <OCZ-VERTEX3>
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 57241MB, 117231408 sectors
wd1(pciide1:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6
ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801H SMBus" rev 0x04: apic 4 int 19
iic0 at ichiic0
spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 2GB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-5300CL5 SO-DIMM
usb2 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb3 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb4 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb5 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0
uhub5 at usb5 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb6 at uhci4: USB revision 1.0
uhub6 at usb6 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
spkr0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
wbsio0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: W83627DHG-P rev 0x73
lm1 at wbsio0 port 0x290/8: W83627DHG
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
uhub7 at uhub1 port 3 "Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub" rev 2.00/96.15 addr 2
uhidev0 at uhub7 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard" 
rev 2.00/0.71 addr 3
uhidev0: iclass 3/1
ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 modifier keys, 5 key codes, country code 33
wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0
uhidev1 at uhub7 port 2 configuration 1 interface 1 "Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard" 
rev 2.00/0.71 addr 3
uhidev1: iclass 3/0
uhid0 at uhidev1: input=1, output=0, feature=0
vscsi0 at root
scsibus0 at vscsi0: 256 targets
softraid0 at root
scsibus1 at softraid0: 256 targets
root on wd1a (7480cd2ac8dfd317.a) swap on wd1b dump on wd1b
wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 128 of 128-143 (wd0 bn 128; cn 0 tn 2 sn 2), 
retrying
wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 5
wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 128 of 128-143 (wd0 bn 128; cn 0 tn 2 sn 2), 
retrying
wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 4
wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 128 of 128-143 (wd0 bn 128; cn 0 tn 2 sn 2), 
retrying
wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 3
wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 3
wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 128 of 128-143 (wd0 bn 128; cn 0 tn 2 sn 2), 
retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)
wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0 bn 16; cn 0 tn 0 sn 16), retrying
wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 1
wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 1
wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0 bn 16; cn 0 tn 0 sn 16), retrying
wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 0
wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 0
wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0 bn 16; cn 0 tn 0 sn 16), retrying
wd0: transfer error, downgrading to DMA mode 2
wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0 bn 16; cn 0 tn 0 sn 16), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)
wd0: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 4
wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4
wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 512 of 512-527 (wd0 bn 512; cn 0 tn 8 sn 8), 
retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)

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