Hello folks.

I guess if any of you had played with Compact Flash in ATA mode. I'm
trying to get something out of the beast but with no luck. The aim is to
have direct I/O on the 18F452 pins: I use PORTC and PORTD for data
transfer and PORTA+PORTE for controlling /WR /RD A0..2 /CS0..1 plus two
pins on PORTB for serial bitbanging. I saw there are many project on the
net, but often based on the 8255 solution and additional logic, no one of
them showing exactly what the initialization of the ATA device would
be. In particular, the controller on the disk (or CF) seems not to
understand even simple commands like "SpinDown" or "identify", also
if the i/O itself seems to work. Any advice is _really_ apreciated.

Cheers!

Ale

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