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)