The following reply was made to PR kern/30615; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/30615: problems with PATA(IDE) HDD via USB adaptor
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:10:32 +1000

 Is this a likely fix?  I understand from crawling through mail archives
 that this is a known issue - I can't go hacking at a kernel on
 a production server without some clues as to if this
 will "fix" the problem? :
 
 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2004/10/11/0000.html