On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:11:45AM -0400, Matthew Brush wrote:
> Hello all,
>

> Has anyone ever used the PIC16F877 to control a hard drive directly (ie.
> without 8255)?  Any comments, suggestions, problems?

Projects abound. One of the most famous is the PIC to CompactFlash project
posted on Circuit Cellar Ink. Let me see if I have it in my bookmarks...

(5 virtual minutes later...)

Nope. And the thought of using an 8255 would make me gag at this point.

5 seconds on google points out this page:

http://www.walrus.com/~raphael/html/mp3.html

An lo and behold! the CCI article is on Raphael's site here:

http://www.walrus.com/~raphael/pdf/compactflashOnPicArticle.pdf

>
> I am planning on making a serial (I2C, SPI, or something) to IDE converter for a future datalogger project.  I'm not concerned about speed at all, but I would like to hear about peoples experiences with this or similar setup.
>

Complete solutions abound. The whole point of IDE was to trivialize the
interface.

The only question that I have is does the 8 pin data bas always work for IDE
especially CF?

BAJ

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