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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
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Subject: Re: Worrisome IDE PIO transfers...
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On Sunday 29 of February 2004 03:41, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:21:30AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >>I like Alan's idea to use loopback instead of "bswap".
> >
> > Or, more likely, device mapper.
>
> Somehow I doubt anybody cares enough to write a whole driver just for
> this unlikely case.

Any TiVo hacker reading this? :)

> For now let's at least record the knowledge...  (patch attached)

Ok, thanks.

Bartlomiej