byteswapping an ide drive

dataw0lf digitalsuicide at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 14:05:00 UTC 2005


Byron Poland wrote:
> I'm trying to boot my uibuntu install with /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
> byteswapped (tivo drives I need to work on).  I've tried adding
> "byteswap=/dev/hda" to the grub append line but that doesn't do it
> also tried "bswap=..." instead with no luck.  Anyone have any ideas?
> 

Ensure you don't have DMA activated, and try `hda=bswap` on the grub
line (just guessing here)

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Joshua Simpson -- dataw0lf.org
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