Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:56:46 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Who uses hdx=bswap or hdx=swapdata? |
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, 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 ?
Don't mention crypto, or Atari will come after us with the DMCA sword, claiming they deliberately implemented access control? ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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