I found some documentation in Internet that say that the bit ordering within
each byte can also be big or little endian and some architecture actually
use big endian ordering for bits and little endian for bytes and vice-versa.
Anyway my problem was not related to the bit ordering but to mine poor
knowledge of how FAT work, now that I found some more detailed documentation
I was able to read correctly (at least) the MBR of the CF.
Thanks and ciao

Fabrizio

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcel Kilgus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ql-users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Little endian


>
> Fabrizio Diversi wrote:
> > I need some advice : i am trying to read a DOS fat formatted disk from
> > smsq(q60), in particular a compact flash card . The question is : does
the
> > little endian to big endian conversion regard only the byte order or
also the
> > bit order ?
>
> Endianess only concerns the byte order. I've never encountered anything
that hat
> a reverse bit order.
>
> Marcel
>


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