Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36

Alan Cox
2002-04-17T09:07:21Z

> > 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