Re: [hatari-devel] IDE byteswap option broken?

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 6/6/20 12:49 PM, Uwe Seimet wrote:
> After playing around for some time my impression is that changing the
> byteswap setting *in the UI* does not work. When I switch from Off to On or
> vice-versa, after a reset nothing has changed. But when I eject the drive,
> reset Hatari, and then assign the previous image again, after the next reset
> the byte order is as expected.

Thanks for reporting, it should be fixed by this:
https://git.tuxfamily.org/hatari/hatari.git/commit/?id=04ca71c6ac601b0d139a4f578d0a2184aaa442c5

	- Eero

> > Am Wed, 3 Jun 2020 22:34:03 +0200
> > schrieb Uwe Seimet <Uwe.Seimet@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > There might be an issue with Hatari's byteswap option. With a drive
> > > image that has a regular (i.e. not Atari IDE but ACSI/SCSI/PC) layout
> > > whenever I read a sector the contents are swapped, regardless of
> > > whether byteswap is set to On or Off. My expectation is that On and
> > > Off would never yield the same result, i.e. one setting would return
> > > swapped data, the other not.
> >
> >   Hi,
> >
> > I am not aware of any changes in that area, so I'm surprised that this
> > should not work anymore. Could you add some debugging code to
> > bdrv_read() and maybe some other spots that use "byteswap" in src/ide.c
> > to see what's going on?

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