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Old 04-06-2007, 05:30 AM   #1
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Default KCS PowerPC board hard disks
All this talk of bridgeboards got me to playing about with
my V30-powered A500 again. I'm still trying to work out how
to read and write to the hard disk (actually a ZIP disk)..

I've found out why it doesn't work...

The stoopid hard disk drivers use 16-bit words to read and
write data! That means that the entire hard disk is
endian-munged! GArgh!!]

So, advice to people wanting to read/write partitions made
on a KCS PowerPC board:

Don't Bother!

D'oh. Looks like I'm stuck to use 720KB DD disks for transfers!
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