Hi, On Monday 31. March 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > Yes, the data on the disk is stored byte-swapped. > > So it's only the drive ID and packet commands that should be swapped. > > If you are storing the data on disk byte swapped then reverse the logic > in the driver so you don't need hacks for un-swapping commands and write > a bytesewap device mapper layer in the right place. Then you can even > move disks around. That would require an additional data copy and a double byteswap on machines which are not that fast in first place... bye, Roman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
