> Sorry for the mess in core code - ist there any other way for only driveid > and packet data getting swapped? And can we actually use the device mapper > to byte-swap the root partition? Device Mapper can certainly support that if needed - I don't think it has a swab target currently but byteswapped is just a very bad crypto algorithm so you can use dm crypt target as a reference. Might not be a bad idea just to make the media shareable. The only other way I can see to do it would be to split the ATA transfer functions into two sets one for media data and one for other stuff - but then how do you handle iso9660 cd ? Alan -- 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