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    SubjectRe: Who uses hdx=bswap or hdx=swapdata?
    On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, 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 ?

    Don't mention crypto, or Atari will come after us with the DMCA sword, claiming
    they deliberately implemented access control? ;-)

    Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

    Geert

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