The firmware won't attach as a USB device if the internal ATA device is experiencing errors, usually.
However it is possible that the enclosure is having it's own problems, you might want to open it up and look for possible loose cables, maybe installing it locally in a machine and checking if any errors show up.
You might also want to attempt using it on another OS, if you happen to have any, as it could be a problem with OpenBSD's USB stack.. check out a snapshot as well.
Also, had newfs of succeeded.. your partition would have been wiped it out, you realize this, right?
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