Re: Who uses hdx=bswap or hdx=swapdata?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:37:47 +0000 (GMT)

> 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 ?
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