Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36 | Date | Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:24:55 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > A small number of other setups people wired the IDE the quick and easy > > way and their native format is indeed ass backwards - some M68K disks and > > the Tivo are examples of that. Interworking requires byteswapping and the > > ability to handle byteswapped partition tables. > > I said it already multiple times Alan - please note that the byte-swapping code > for *physically* crosswired systems is *still there*. OK?
Thats not relevant to the discussion. I don't see why you brought it up. The loopback stuff is about handling backward disks for interchange between systems or dealing with historical weirdnesses much more than physical layer - 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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