The following reply was made to PR kern/36690; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Damon Permezel <permezel@mac.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: re: kern/36690
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:18:53 +1000

 sorry.  no longer running NetBSD on that box (or any boxen).  gave up  
 and went back to FreeBSD and now experience no problems whatsoever  
 with the tape drive, including with some tapes that hung the box with  
 NetBSD so badly that I required a power cycle to get the thing working  
 again.
 
 Sorry I cannot help any further.