I did check that, appears some pins have been used for different things in
the past but I do believe they are right.

I have had more success, being completely confounded by it always returning
4F4F when I tried a sector read (but working fine when I do an identify
drive command) I changed from using LBA (11100000 in the device/head
register) to CHS (10100000 in the device/head register) and that appears to
work. I am royally confused, this drive DOES support LBA (I checked in
another computer and I checked the bit field in the identify drive command
response) so I'm not sure why it didn't work properly in LBA mode. Do I have
to SET it for LBA (aside from the device/head register?). I really don't
want to use CHS if I don't have to, the conversions get annoying, especially
on something as small as a PIC. Thanks for any info. TTYL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Peter L. Peres
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 15:23
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [PIC]: IDE interfacing
>
>
> > DRQ bit
>
> check that you've set defined levels on unused IDE signals (related to DMA
> and others) imho.
>
> Peter
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