The following reply was made to PR kern/31826; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: tnn@netilium.org
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/31826
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:02:49 +0200 (CEST)

 I tried pulling the power to the disk for 30 seconds while
 doing a dd from it. The drive was successfully reset and the
 dd resumed. Could it be that the phy on the controller locks
 up in rare situations?