[ECOS] IDE/ATAPI/FS info?

[Brett Hackleman <brhackle@eos.ncsu.edu>]

A little off topic, but I have a few questions:

1. Anyone have uC source for communicating with an ATAPI CDROM drive and
reading it's contents?  I have a document for an IDE interface (software
and hardware), and I have plenty of links for the ATAPI spec... but has
anyone already done this for another project?

2. One step further -- anyone have source/specs for reading
any of the common FS formats on an IDE drive?  I would prefer ext2fs
or any of the dos/win formats... if necessary, I'll probably just use
the linux source as a guide and convert it to whatever uC I decide
to use.

Any links or suggestions would be appreciated!

Regards,
Brett

[brhackle@eos.ncsu.edu]





Liviu Ionescu wrote:
> 
> > intel and with the introduction of the arm devices, intel will be
> > dropping the i960 in the future. maybe you'd like to talk to intel.
> 
> Mike, we checked with Intel and there will be a few more years (possibly
> 10?) until they'll drop the i960 line, so I don't think there is a real
> reason for not using it right now. don't forget the RP/RD are quite young
> and the VH was just released last year.
> 
> but on long term I agree with you, the arm architecture has more future in
> it.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Liviu