On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Stuart O'Reilly wrote:

> Can you make any suggestions as to where i might find info on the EIDE
> interface (a good starting place )with things like commands that i can
> send the harddrive and get a reply, pinouts etc. I intend to try do this
> in picbasic.
> Stuart

There are two items available on the web:

One is the ATA-3 draft specification, which explains all the EIDE commands
and should make most hard drives work. Something more recent could be
available, but I used ATA-3 when I did this.

The second, is a source file used in the Linux operating system, that
implements the ATAPI/EIDE cd interface. In fact, you need more than one
file. Those would be: ide.c ide.h and two more (eide.c ? atapi.c ?). If
you have a friend who runs Linux ask him to send you these files. If you
don't find one, I'll fetch them and try to send them from my systems.

Note that the implementation details of the Linux files may be over your
level of understanding (do you know C ?).

hope this helps,

Peter