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

2013-12-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
Philip, On 12/17/2013 2:17 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: 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

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

2013-12-17 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/2013 2:17 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > 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

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

2013-12-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
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

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

2013-12-16 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/16/2013 04:19 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > 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

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

2013-12-16 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/2013 2:45 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I'm pretty sure that Philipp was talking about tests which are run > during build time to check the code, hence the name "make check". Yes. You should start with the current git head preferab