Adam, Your support for the full size of the 2G drive is a pretty big bite. How about a free SanDisk card for someone who can read/write in a manner useful to getting data in/out of your laptop? I see _that_ as having a lot of potential for embedded systems. Shoot, I wouldn't care if the spec allowed it to be formatted by DOS and had to have a single file (named somewhere) that was the data I/O file. Andy "M. Adam Davis" on 04/07/2000 10:34:31 AM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: (bcc: Andrew Kunz/TDI_NOTES) Subject: Re: ide interface offer This is something that many people have looked for previously in many newsgroups, mailing lists, etc. Because of this people feel it is somehow valuable, and in a way it is. But it's value lies in how well you market it. I understand you have a desire to get something back from making this code, if you were to release it. I have found, however, that you have already gained the most important thing from it that you will ever get: experience. Chances are good that no one is going to pay you very much for this code, or trade anything expensive. Honestly the best thing you can get out of this now is more experience. If you were to give it away (say, post it to the piclist), there would be many who would build it and improve it. One of the best ways to learn better programming techniques is to see how someone else would improve your own programs. If you want to spend just a little bit more time on it, then I will give you a new 2GB laptop hard drive (2.5", 12mm tall), as long as it performs as outlined in http://ubasics.com/contest/ Right now you have a good portion of an IDE interface built. If you can get it to read and write to/from a regular IDE hard drive and release it openly, then you will get my hard drive. I wish you luck in your endeavers. -Adam Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. > Robert Boardman wrote: > > just got some code written to get a CD-ROM playing audio disc's via the ide > cable. pic code asm > Gives you a good starting point! Any interested? Swap 4 mp3 asm code or mp3 > development kit What have you?