diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2cdc5ff..c246516 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,42 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.13.1 (2026-04-24)
+
+### `scsi::reset()` now has a hard wallclock timeout
+
+Production incident on a wedged BU40N USB drive: autorip's poll loop
+called `scsi::reset()` and the call hung for 60+ seconds before the
+operator manually intervened. Root cause: the Linux `SG_SCSI_RESET`
+ioctl can block indefinitely when the kernel SCSI subsystem is waiting
+on a bus-wedged device that will never ack — there's no kernel-side
+timeout on this ioctl. Without an outer wallclock bound the caller's
+thread is stuck in the kernel until the device unwedges (which, for a
+permanently-dead USB target, may be never).
+
+`scsi::reset()` is now a wrapper that runs the platform-specific reset
+on a detached worker thread and bounds the caller's wait via
+`mpsc::recv_timeout(DEFAULT_RESET_TIMEOUT_SECS)` (30 s). Returns
+`DeviceResetFailed` on timeout. The worker thread keeps running until
+the kernel eventually unblocks (we can't cancel a Linux ioctl from
+userspace) — this leaks one OS thread per hard wedge, an acceptable
+cost for a daemon that recovers vs. one that hangs.
+
+- New `pub const DEFAULT_RESET_TIMEOUT_SECS: u64 = 30;`
+- New `pub fn reset_with_timeout(device, Duration) -> Result<()>` for
+  callers that want a different bound.
+- Existing `pub fn reset(device) -> Result<()>` keeps the same
+  signature; behaviour change is the timeout, not the API.
+
+### Follow-up flagged
+
+`SG_SCSI_RESET` only resets at the SCSI layer. For USB-attached drives
+(the BU40N case), the wedge is often in the USB Mass Storage layer
+*below* SCSI — `SG_SCSI_RESET` doesn't help. The proper escalation is
+`USBDEVFS_RESET` (the `usbreset.c` ioctl), which re-enumerates the
+device at the USB layer. Tracked for 0.13.2: a `scsi::usb_reset(path)`
+that resolves sg → USB device and issues `USBDEVFS_RESET`. That would
+have recovered tonight's BU40N without operator intervention.
+
 ## 0.13.0 (2026-04-24)
 
 ### Zero English in library — typed variants for every error path
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 94e5e9d..244b89b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "libfreemkv"
-version = "0.13.0"
+version = "0.13.1"
 edition = "2024"
 rust-version = "1.86"
 license = "AGPL-3.0-only"
diff --git a/src/scsi/mod.rs b/src/scsi/mod.rs
index 0efcd34..514d718 100644
--- a/src/scsi/mod.rs
+++ b/src/scsi/mod.rs
@@ -88,9 +88,74 @@ pub fn open(device: &Path) -> Result<Box<dyn ScsiTransport>> {
     }
 }
 
-/// Reset a SCSI device to a known good state. Platform-specific.
-/// On Linux: open/close fd cycle + TUR + SG_SCSI_RESET escalation.
+/// Default upper bound on `scsi::reset()`. The platform-specific reset
+/// sequence does ~15 s of bounded sleeps + ioctls in the happy path, so
+/// 30 s is roughly 2× the worst-case happy time — long enough that a
+/// healthy-but-slow drive isn't false-positively timed out, short enough
+/// that a kernel-wedged ioctl doesn't take down the caller's poll loop
+/// for minutes.
+pub const DEFAULT_RESET_TIMEOUT_SECS: u64 = 30;
+
+/// Reset a SCSI device to a known good state, with a hard wallclock
+/// bound (`DEFAULT_RESET_TIMEOUT_SECS`). On Linux: open/close fd cycle +
+/// TUR + SG_SCSI_RESET escalation.
+///
+/// **Why the timeout matters.** SG_SCSI_RESET is an ioctl that can block
+/// indefinitely on a kernel-wedged USB target (the kernel waits for the
+/// SCSI subsystem to ack the reset, which never comes from a dead-bus
+/// device). Without an outer bound, the call hangs the caller's thread
+/// forever — observed in production on a wedged BU40N where the autorip
+/// poll loop sat in the ioctl for 60+ s. The bounded version returns
+/// `DeviceResetFailed` after `DEFAULT_RESET_TIMEOUT_SECS`; the inner
+/// thread keeps running until the kernel eventually unblocks it (we
+/// can't cancel a Linux ioctl from userspace), so this leaks one OS
+/// thread per wedge — acceptable cost for a daemon that recovers
+/// instead of hanging.
 pub fn reset(device: &Path) -> Result<()> {
+    reset_with_timeout(device, std::time::Duration::from_secs(DEFAULT_RESET_TIMEOUT_SECS))
+}
+
+/// Reset with a caller-specified timeout. See [`reset`] for the full
+/// rationale on why an outer wallclock bound is required.
+pub fn reset_with_timeout(device: &Path, timeout: std::time::Duration) -> Result<()> {
+    let device_owned = device.to_path_buf();
+    let (tx, rx) = std::sync::mpsc::channel();
+
+    // Detach a worker thread for the actual reset. We never `join` it —
+    // if the kernel ioctl is wedged, the join would block forever, which
+    // is the very thing we're protecting the caller from. The thread will
+    // exit on its own when the kernel eventually returns from the ioctl
+    // (or never, if the device is permanently dead — process exit cleans
+    // it up).
+    std::thread::Builder::new()
+        .name("scsi-reset".into())
+        .spawn(move || {
+            let r = reset_blocking(&device_owned);
+            let _ = tx.send(r);
+        })
+        .map_err(|_| Error::DeviceResetFailed {
+            path: device.display().to_string(),
+        })?;
+
+    match rx.recv_timeout(timeout) {
+        Ok(result) => result,
+        Err(std::sync::mpsc::RecvTimeoutError::Timeout) => Err(Error::DeviceResetFailed {
+            path: device.display().to_string(),
+        }),
+        Err(std::sync::mpsc::RecvTimeoutError::Disconnected) => {
+            // The worker thread panicked before sending. Surface as a
+            // reset failure rather than a generic error.
+            Err(Error::DeviceResetFailed {
+                path: device.display().to_string(),
+            })
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Inner reset — runs on the worker thread. May block indefinitely if
+/// the kernel's SCSI subsystem is wedged. Callers must use the bounded
+/// `reset()` wrapper above; this raw function isn't exposed.
+fn reset_blocking(device: &Path) -> Result<()> {
     #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
     {
         linux::SgIoTransport::reset(device)