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

        I built almost the exact same thing:

http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/carmon/

While I use a compact flash card you'll notice that the hardware is actually
built for a hard drive, and in fact I treat the CF card as if it were a hard
drive. I actually did start development with a hard drive, but moved to a CF
card since I didn't need the extra space of an actual IDE drive.

The existing project works with one my hard drives, with others it does not,
however by fiddling with some of the timing parameters it should work with
pretty much any drive out there. TTYL

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Herbert's PIC Stuff:
http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/

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