Re: Bug#239816: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Phillip Susi dixit:

>> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit:
>> 
>>> But, of course, you could apply the patch to gparted, rebuild
>>> it, then create a partition table on a hard disk and hook it up
>>> to your ATARI and see if it's being recognized.
>> 
>> Before hooking it up, bswap the disc if it’s IDE, though.
>
>Nothing should need swapped.

I thought so too, but it turns out that the Atari IDE interface
is literally wired “the wrong way”, so you do need to bswap the
entire disc – not just partition table or filesystem metadata –
but also user data – before exchanging it between any other sy‐
stem with IDE and an Atari. Don’t mind that detail.

On SCSI discs, this works as-is ofc.

bye,
//mirabilos
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