Re: [PATCH] M68k IDE updates

Jamie Lokier (jamie@shareable.org)
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 05:45:05 +0100


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?

That way, Ataris running Linux can read ext2 disks from other systems
properly, and other systems can read TOS disks written by Ataris
properly.

Or did I miss something?

-- Jamie

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