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

From: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, talmage@macdonell.onespeeddave.com
Subject: Re: kern/34737
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 23:16:45 +0100

 On Monday 09 October 2006 23:05, David W. Talmage wrote:
 
 >  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.
 
 Hmm, I didn't know about that PR. It's possible no developers had access 
 to suitable media (with 1KB/2KB physical sectors) with which to test 
 the changes. Now that's no longer true, I suspect we'll see those 
 changes added fairly soon, at least as a stop-gap until DEV_BSIZE is 
 fixed. ;-)
 
 Cheers, Steve