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    SubjectRe: Who uses hdx=bswap or hdx=swapdata?
    On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Manfred Spraul wrote:
    > 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.

    And if you use e.g. /dev/hda as loop parameter instead of /dev/hdaX?

    Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

    Geert

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