Hi Marc,
It is attaching to a Mitsubishi M16C62 processor.
I might look at the MMC also, as it is looks like a simpler
interface.. might be easier to knock up a sample than the CF
card where I need to do a new circuit board..

Cheers
Peter Mcalpine

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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Marc Nicholas
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 May 2003 2:57 PM
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> Subject: Re: [OT]: software to talk IDE same as compact flash
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>
> Yes, it can be "ATA like".
>
> Or you could use MMC which isn't much more complicated than SPI from a
> hardware point of view...obviously software is a different matter ;-)
>
> Are you attaching this to a PIC?
>
> On 14/5/03 00:37, "Peter Mcalpine" <petemca@BIGPOND.NET.AU> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > I have been given a datalogger project to do
> > that has a fair amount of data to be stored, so
> > it seems a compact flash card is a good solution.
> > Also make downloading the data to a PC simple
> > also.
> >
> > I have found some information on the web, mainly
> > to do with MP3 players, for compact flash and it
> > seems that the code is similar to that of talking
> > to an IDE hard drive..
> >
> > Is this so?
> >
> > If anyone can suggest good websites for this also
> > that would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Peter Mcalpine
> > who will one day finish that solar MPPT project..
> >
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