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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:40:30 +0100
From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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Subject: Re: Who uses hdx=bswap or hdx=swapdata?
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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.

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	Manfred
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