8-bit IDE hard drives, controllers

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Mon Feb 21 10:16:47 CST 2005


On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:44:08PM -0700, woodelf wrote:
> Working on a homebrew computer design, I have been looking up IDE 
> interfacing and you could build a new PC
> interface but you then don't have  BIOS suport. I think this is more of 
> the case here THE PC IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE  PC for 8 bit I/O. Looking 

Search these archives for a similar post; there are indeed 8-bit ISA
IDE interface cards that work with IDE drives up to 540MB.  I have
one of them but haven't dragged out my 5150 to try it out yet
(sidetracked on another project).
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