The following reply was made to PR kern/34737; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David W. Talmage" <talmage@onespeeddave.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/34737
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 18:03:51 -0400

 On Monday 09 October 2006 4:16 pm, Steve Woodford wrote:
 > On Monday 09 October 2006 19:38, David W. Talmage wrote:
 > > I applied the patch, rebuilt the kernel, and rebooted with the new
 > > kernel.  As Mr. Woodford predicted, the patch resolved the geometry
 > > and hanging issues.  Stll, I can't mount the iPod.
 >
 > Yep, and here's why:
 > > sd4: 28615 MB, 7153 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 2048 bytes/sect x 14651280
 > > sectors
 >
 > Note: 2048 bytes/sect.
 
 With Steve's patch, kern/34737 is reduced to kern/17398, which was offerred in 
 2002.  Why wasn't that committed four years ago?  It doesn't solve the 
 general problem of sectors bigger or smaller than 512 bytes, I grant you, but 
 it just seems too useful not to commit.
 
 David