The following reply was made to PR kern/33637; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Shigeya Suzuki <shigeya@wide.ad.jp>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/33637
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:06:27 -0700

 Forgot to mention this, but I tested this too, and working:
 
 tallac 8# dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/rwd1d skip=268435000  
 count=1000             ~
 1000+0 records in
 1000+0 records out
 512000 bytes transferred in 2.314 secs (221261 bytes/sec)
 
 shigeya