On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:46:45AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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?
nobody ever defined what is the correct way for HD drives. It is of course defined for CD's so Theirry's driver takes care of it in this case. > > 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? yes, you need to swap 16bit words. Richard
