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I'm interested in an answer as well. I love hacking on old stuff and I have a couple of 100Mb IDE drives and a 16F877 just waiting to relate on a deeper level. -- James Cameron spam_OUTquozlTakeThisOuTus.netrek.org http://quozl.us.netrek.org/

Not PIC, sorry, but the author (a PICList member IIRC) has been studying IDE. http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~s9906768/pic/IDE_to_8255.html Jinx > > Is it possible to control an external IDE device with a PIC? > do special chips, etc already do this? > > Thanks, > Ravi >

>Hello all. > >Happy Holidays and New Year. > >Is it possible to control an external IDe device with a PIC? >do special chips, etc already do this? > >Thanks, >Ravi Look at this page: http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~s9906768/pic/IDE_to_8255.html It's a unfinished project. Conects IDE port with a Intel 8255 chip. Perhaps this page give you some ideas. Sorry my bad english and happy new year, Javier Martinez.

I've seen projects where someone has an 8-bit micro talking to an IDE drive, so definitely, yes; Some of us'll have to quit being lazy & jsut implement that monster sometime! I imagine you could mutate the code here: http://www.blkbox.com/~jdbaker/SmallSys/8bitIDE.html, he has a lot of good info on this. I may do that locally with someone, but he likes Atmel's so may be on that platform. I'm sure I could search and find more similar code out there, so can you <G> Mark James Cameron wrote: > > I'm interested in an answer as well. I love hacking on old stuff and I > have a couple of 100Mb IDE drives and a 16F877 just waiting to relate on > a deeper level. > > -- > James Cameron .....quozlKILLspam@spam@us.netrek.org http://quozl.us.netrek.org/ -- I re-ship for small US & overseas businesses, world-wide. (For private individuals at cost; ask.)

part 0 723 bytes How about using PICs to make a poor-man's RAID controller instead of having to use software RAID (not as good performance) or a commercially available hardware RAID controller (too expensive)? This may have to be with SCSI instead of IDE, but has anyone pursued this at all? Thanks. ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number - Free Free voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ---- On , Ravi Kacker (rkackerKILLspamMBHS.EDU) wrote: {Quote hidden}> Hello all. > > Happy Holidays and New Year. > > Is it possible to control an external IDe device with a PIC? > do special chips, etc already do this? > > Thanks, > Ravi > >