>On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Chris Corben wrote:
>
> Has anyone out there any clues to interfacing a PIC to an IDE hard-disk?
>

The IDE specs (PDF format - need adobe acrobat reader) are at:

   ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/x3t13/t13.htm

You can look the older (simpler) specs to get an idea of what is needed for
interfacing to one of these drives.
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