From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brett Hackleman To: "'eCos Discuss'" Subject: [ECOS] IDE/ATAPI/FS info? Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 18:17:00 -0000 Message-id: <393EF394.C8D588B4@eos.ncsu.edu> References: <001101bfd0a0$3e05de60$c980e2c1@ilglibretto> X-SW-Source: 2000-06/msg00093.html 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