> > A small number of other setups people wired the IDE the quick and easy
> > way and their native format is indeed ass backwards - some M68K disks and
> > the Tivo are examples of that. Interworking requires byteswapping and the
> > ability to handle byteswapped partition tables.
>
> I said it already multiple times Alan - please note that the byte-swapping code
> for *physically* crosswired systems is *still there*. OK?
Thats not relevant to the discussion. I don't see why you brought it up. The
loopback stuff is about handling backward disks for interchange between
systems or dealing with historical weirdnesses much more than physical layer
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