ide-tape broken (was Re: [PATCH] use ide-identify.h, fix endian bug)

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 15:51:31 EST


On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> Given ide-identify.h, we can simplify ide-floppy.c and ide-tape.c a lot.
> In fact ide-tape.c was broken on big-endian machines.
> (Unfortunately much more is broken that was fixed here,
> ide-tape.c is not in a good shape today.)

ide-tape is broken because nobody cares, so I don't care too
(was broken even before). It needs rewrite and testing.

So once again if anybody cares and has hardware to test,
please contact me and I will try fix it.

Until then I don't touch it et all and consider it obsoleted.

--bartlomiej

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