At 05:30 PM 11/5/97 -0200, you wrote:
>I know this is an already discussed thread but could anyone give me
>a simple answer to this question.
>Is it possible to use a PIC to control a IDE harddisk?
>I got some 1.3 inch 40 meg harddisk and I want to use it.

You should be able to if it has an IDE interface.  Just duplicate the ISA
bus structure and send data (slowly <G>) to the drive and it _should_ work.

Andy

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