Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:19:27 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Who uses hdx=bswap or hdx=swapdata? |
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Manfred Spraul wrote: > 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.
And if you use e.g. /dev/hda as loop parameter instead of /dev/hdaX?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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