Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:11:37 +0200 (MEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] M68k IDE updates |
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > Since __ide_mm_insw doesn't get told whether it is transferring normal > > > sector data or drive ID data, it can't necessarily do the right thing > > > in both situations. > > > > Indeed. Ataris and Q40/Q60s have byteswapped IDE busses, but they expect > > on-disk data to be that way, for compatibility with e.g. TOS. > > Isn't that best solved in the TOS filesystem code?
There's also a partition table to read. BTW, Atari uses MS-DOS style partitioning.
> That way, Ataris running Linux can read ext2 disks from other systems > properly, and other systems can read TOS disks written by Ataris > properly.
That's why there's also an option to swap all diskdata at the IDE level, so you can take your Atari disks to a PC and vice versa.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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