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The IDENTIFY command also returns some strings for the manufacturer/drive id, which are defined as having the first/even character in bits 15:8. Stored in memor
by rep_lodsb 5y ago
The IDENTIFY command also returns some strings for the manufacturer/drive id, which are defined as having the first/even character in bits 15:8. Stored in memory on a little-endian system, "TOSHIBA " becomes "OTHSBI A".
So it kind of made sense to think IDE was big-endian, because that would at least be consistent.