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Alan Cox wrote: > > > IIRC it's used to access non-Atari IDE disks on Atari (which has a byte-swapped > > IDE interface) and vice-versa. > > > > So yes, you can use it on SMP machines, to access disks that were used before > > on Atari. > > For 2.5 would it perhaps be cleaner if we had a bswapping loop device. Sort > of very bad crypto mode ? I tried to implement that, but hdx=bswap operates on drives, and loop on partitions. Do you have another idea? It probably has to wait until the partition code is further cleaned up. -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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