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It hadn't occurred to me that PATA/IDE could be so simple to speak. Now I'm excited about the possibility of being able to dump a 25 or 30-year-old IDE drive I
by jack12 6y ago
It hadn't occurred to me that PATA/IDE could be so simple to speak. Now I'm excited about the possibility of being able to dump a 25 or 30-year-old IDE drive I have that my USB adapter doesn't want to talk to (via another SATA-to-IDE adapter).
The README says this option relies on the kernel's "ATA framework" (presumably for the protocol/non-interfacing logic?). Is that part of the "talking to a drive" stack very much to have to implement? Or do you know of any existing code for microcontrollers?
- manawyrm 6y agoDepends on what you want to do :) If you just want to read/write sectors of 512 bytes at a time, it's pretty easy to implement even on a simple MCU. There's a couple of registers which need to be set: https://wiki.osdev.org/ATA_PIO_Mode https://wiki.osdev.org/ATA_PIO_Mode and you can then just read/write the data from the parallel lines. Here's a similar project using an ATmega32: https://github.com/zwostein/idetrol https://github.com/zwostein/idetrol (i used this code, ported to ARM to check my hardware before I wrote the kerneldriver)
- stefan_ 6y agoHow can this be so easy but talking to an SD card is an impossible task without implementing a billion vendor/type quirks.
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