Disk Drives

PIC Specific IDE IO

http://www.ftdichip.com/FTProj.htm PIC or SX 28 to IDE (Compact Flash) interface with a USB interface chip on the other end.

http://www.barrymichels.com/ide/ Complete PIC to IDE interface. Uses RAM to buffer the data and reads FAT partitions.

How to connect an IDE disk to a microcontroller using an 8255 from Thomas Brandon [tom at psy.unsw.edu.au] by Omar Martinez [omartinez at hartford.com.ar] or Peter Faasse [faasse at nlr.nl] depending on who you talk to today. In html at http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~s9906768/pic/IDE_to_8255.html

http://www.chipcenter.com/circuitcellar/february01/c0201ms1.htm "PIC A COMPACTFLASH CARD" interfacting a microcontroller to a CF and IDE

http://www.montanadesign.com/contest.html A contest to interface a PIC to and IDE hard drive.

http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/joecolquitt/0hdd.html Driving a Hard Drive motor with a PIC

Floppy Stepper Motors

DOS Filesystems

See also: (Remember: IDE is also known as ATA)

• http://www.t13.org This is the official site for Technical Committee T13 - the people who make the ATA spec.
• Information on ATA 1,2,3 can be found at ftp://ftp.symbios.com/pub/standards/io
• http://www.spectsoft.com/mp3tech/ide.txt
• the ATA Command Set. These commands can be sent via the lower bits (D0-D7, 8-bits) instead of using all 16 lines. the spec. is at ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/pub/standards/x3t13/project/ see d1321r1a.pdf or d1321r1a.zip The file contains the spec in DOC form.
• Technical information about Seagate drives may be found at http://www.seagate.com.
• Western Digital technical support 1-800-275-4932 ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/pub/standards/ata/
• http://www.itutech.com
  ftp://iglou.com/members/ITU/pc-int.
  See the ATAr4c.txt and ide-tech.txt files for more info.
• http://www.storagereview.com/guide/guide_int_perf_fact.html Hard Disk Internal Performance Factors
• "Yet Another Enhanced IDE/Fast-ATA/ATA-2 FAQ" is posted on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and .misc. It is also available, together with related material, by FTP from ftp.aimnet.com:/pub/users/clau/ide_ata/ ftp.rahul.net:/pub/lps/hard-disk/
  ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl:/pub/faqs/ and by WWW from: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/ata/ or http://www.seagate.com/techsuppt/faq/faqlist.html
• http://thef-nym.sci.kun.nl/~pieterh/storage.html Enhanced IDE FAQ
• http://www.scanlogic.com USB to IDE/ATAPI. ScanLogic was aquired by Cypress on May 29, 2001. See http://www.cypress.com for more information.
• http://www.sonic.net/~alanwall/hwb/co_IdeInternal.html
• http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hardware/2342/mp3player.html this is a 68HC11 based MP3 player with an IDE CD-ROM, I suspect this will have much pertinate info.
• http://www-stu.cai.cam.ac.uk/~atm26/electronics/panasoniccd.html list of error codes
• http://www.spectsoft.com/mp3tech/ (good CD, MP3, and IDE stuff here)
• http://www.angelfire.com/ms/mp3player/page17.html
• http://www.faqs.org/faqs/pc-hardware-faq/enhanced-IDE/part2/
• http://pages.hotbot.com/cooking/anton_verheijen/main.html
• http://www.imbdev.com/ (MAS3507 proto boards)
  
• Connecting IDE devices to 8 bit machines:
  • http://www.mp3ar.com/ (this is a cd based mp3 player using a PIC. free source code!)
  • http://www.blkbox.com/~jdb8042/SmallSys/8bitIDE.html
  • http://www.nomad.ee/micros/8052bas.html
  • http://nimitz.mcs.kent.edu/~clisowsk/8bit/ide8bit.html
  • http://www.nomad.ee/micros/ - Info on an 8052 IDE interface. Started off using aPICbut changed due to PIC limitations. Hardware interface fully implemented, software interface partially interfaced.
  • http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~s9906768/pic/IDE_to_8255.html
  • For a complete treatment of IDE interfacing to 8-bit CPUs (particularly the Z80 family), check out issues 56, 63, 64, and 66 of The Computer Journal. There is a simple IDE interface for the Z80 called GIDE (Generic IDE). It should be possible to adapt it to other 8-bit processors. There is an article about it on the TCJ Web Page. Click on 'GIDE'.
  • http://www.cis.cau.edu/~byron/picide.html
• SCSI:
  • http://www.symbios.com/ftp/pub/standards/io/scsi2
  • http://www.abekrd.co.uk/SCSI2/SCSI2-index.html
  • ftp://ftp.compusult.nf.ca:/pub/sunos/scsi-doc/scsi1.17b.gz
  • ftp://ftp.loria.fr:/pub7/obi/Standards/scsi/
  • ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk:/mirrors/yggdrasil.fall95/disk1/usr/doc/scsi-1/
  • ftp://ftp.funet.fi:/pub/doc/SCSI/SCSI1-docs.tar.gz
  • ftp://romeo-klive.nvg.unit.no:/pub/hardware/scsi-3/x3t10/drafts/scsi1
  • ftp://ftp.nau.edu:/pub/info/hardware/scsi/
  • ftp://relay.cs.toronto.edu:/doc/scsi/
  • ftp://sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-8/fromnichols/scsi1-17b.zip
  • ftp://ftp.compusult.nf.ca:/pub/sunos/scsi-doc/scsi1.17b.gz
  • ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de:/docs/comp-allg/scsi2doc.zip
  • ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de:/pub3/docs+papers/scsi2
  • ftp://ftp.funet.fi:/pub/doc/SCSI/SCSI2-docs.tar.gz
  • ftp://romeo-klive.nvg.unit.no:/pub/hardware/scsi-3/x3t10/drafts/scsi2
• The specification for ATAPI (IDE) CDROM drives can be obtained from: ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/pub/standards/atapi/spec/SFF8020-r1.2/sff8020.ps In here you will find the complete command set detailing how to play audio tracks (among other things). The file is in postscript format.
• Floppy drive information can be found in the data sheets for many FD controller chips.
  • 82078 (from http://www.intel.com),
  • 82C710 (from ftp://ftp.chips.com/pub/pdf)
  • FDC37C665 (from http://www.smc.com).
  • PC8477B (from National Semiconductor, http://www.natsemi.com)
• Intel's Embedded controller handbooks also contain some info.
• Dave Brooks has interfaced a FDC37C665IR floppy controller to a Zilog Z80182. You can find some details at: http://www.iinet.net.au/~daveb. Follow the "P112" links.

Hard Drive Specifications:

Specifications of the IDE interface

See:

• /techref/cds.htm cds+

Questions:

• @spam@luragungb at spamyahoo.com asks: " I am looking interface for harddisk IDE with mikrokontroller AT89C51 use PPI 8255 and how to connect them, thans
  luragungb@yahoo.com" +
• Hello Friends I've a general query about CD-ROM drives in computer: Does CD drive's life lessen due to excessive playing of Audio/Video CDs or not? If yes, then how a ACD/VCD player keeps working well for so long? I would be grateful if anybody could provide a reasonable explanation! Thanx-a-lot. Ashish Dutt Sharma My Email Address: ashishdutt@rediffmail.com

Comments:

See also:

• http://www.interdatarecovery.com Data recovery service for any storage device and every OS.+
• http://perso.wanadoo.fr/loicmarty/disque_dur/disque_dur.htm Translated from French IDE interface from PIC 16F871. Very nicely done.+

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