>I've done PIC/IDE interfacing, and it's not too bad. I didn't actually
>implement FAT, but wound up using my own filesystem which was better
>suited to the task at hand (streaming MP3's off a hard drive). I had
>32K
>of SRAM attached for storing clusters - presumably you're planning on
>having some form of off-chip cache? At the very least, you'll probably
>want to cache a single sector of FAT data, otherwise you're going to
>be
>doing a lot of back-and-forth seeking between FAT and data sectors.
>Can
>I ask what this is for?

It's for an MP3 player, as a matter of fact. I want to make one using a Zip driv
e.

>Cheers,
>Ben

-Randy
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