On 24 Apr 2002, at 22:59, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > nope, the problem is more complicated, I guess you have formatted > that QXL.WIN file on a QPC drive.
That's true. > On Q40/Q60 and Atari the IDE bus is connected to the CPU bus > in such a way that data comming from the HD appears 16-bit > byte reversed as compared when you attach the same drive > to PC-ish hardware. Oh, so it still is the wrong way round on the drive? > Traditionally swapping hard disks was > not seen as useful or common enough to compensate this in > software, afaics only Linux has an option for it. It's true that I don't often take the disk out of the Q60 to put it in a PC - what with hotswappable drives... So, if I did this,the content of a QXLWIN file would seem to be byte reversed? > To summarise: there is a bus-endian and a cpu-endianness > issue. CPU is the same for QPC and Q40/Q60 so you only see > the bus-endian issue. If you want to use Q40 hard disks on > PC hardware you need to use the 'hdX=swapdata' option (linux) > for this drive.. anyone knows equivalent option for WinXX? No, never heard of it. Wolfgang
