Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] falconide/q40ide: add ->atapi_*put_bytes and ->ata_*put_data methods | From | Roman Zippel <> | Date | Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:41:06 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Monday 31. March 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Yes, the data on the disk is stored byte-swapped. > > So it's only the drive ID and packet commands that should be swapped. > > If you are storing the data on disk byte swapped then reverse the logic > in the driver so you don't need hacks for un-swapping commands and write > a bytesewap device mapper layer in the right place. Then you can even > move disks around.
That would require an additional data copy and a double byteswap on machines which are not that fast in first place...
bye, Roman
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