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foft wrote:

There is plenty of software for the Atari which accesses ATA hard drives via a simple register interface. Find out what this interface is and wire it up to the SD card directly. So its possible to use it like the compact flash in an incognito for instance.

P-o-ss-i-b-i-l-i-t-i-e-s :-)

I need to prepare a document outlining the minimum requirements of IDE emulation since I'm explaining the same thing in multiple locations at the moment. ;) Absolute minimum requirement is the 8 basic IDE registers, and it's useful to be able to reset the device. These are the SIDE2 registers as an example:

IDE_DATA equ $D5f0
IDE_ERR equ $D5f1
IDE_SCNT equ $D5f2
IDE_SNUM equ $D5f3 ; LBA 0
IDE_CYLL equ $D5f4 ; LBA 1
IDE_CYLH equ $D5f5 ; LBA 2
IDE_HEAD equ $D5f6 ; LBA 3 ($Ex)
IDE_STAT equ $D5f7
IDE_CTRL equ $D5f8 ; Device control (used for device reset)
One could implement a latched sixteen bit data register to do away with the need for 8-bit PIO mode, but I'm not sure off the top of my head how that would work with the PDM Player (since I didn't code up an IDE Plus 2.0 version yet).

Bare minimum required commands are read (0x20), write (0x30), Indentify device (0xEC) and Set Features (0xEF, if no sixteen bit data bus is provided). Only the following information from the Identify Device buffer is employed by APT tools:
1 Number of logical cylinders
3 Number of logical heads
5 Number of logical sectors per track
10-19 Serial number (20 ASCII characters)
23-26 Firware revision (8 ASCII characters)
27-46 Model number (40 ASCII characters)
60-61 Total number of user addressable sectors (LBA mode only)
CHS data is used by the partition editor when laying out the MBR. The three strings can be populated with generic place-holder information if necessary.

Of course I'm not delving into the entire APT implementation here, which ideally requires a PBI device ROM.

Above was info from flashjazzcat on the forum

Some links..
https://www.pjrc.com/tech/8051/ide/wesley.html#idereg
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/279232-fujiconvert-01/page-3

Simple read seems to be:
sector address-> 4 lba regs with $e0 in high part
scnt-> 1
stat-> cmd
data-> read each byte at a time

https://wiki.osdev.org/ATA_PIO_Mode

Probably want at least DRQ, RDY and BSY in the status reg

Identify:0xec
0->SCNT,SNUM,CYLL,CYLH
0xa0->HEAD
0xec >STAT
read stat -> if 0 then does not exist! Then wait for BSY to clear and RDQ to set.
read data -> 512 bytes
See above for the interesting bytes from this.

What is used in set features?

0xef set features, then set feature 1 + lba mode?

Think this can probably be ignored.