The following reply was made to PR kern/35934; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/35934 (read(2) from raw disk into unaligned buffer)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:56:38 +0200

 On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
 > OK, I've committed patch for piixide driver.
 > Does it work for you?
 > 
 > sys/dev/pci/piixide.c	1.37
 
 Works for me.  Thank you.
 
 Is the inability to DMA to non-aligned addresses a hardware bug in this
 particular controller, or is a documented feature of PCI in general, or
 something in between?
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)