IDE to USB adapter for VERY old hard drives

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Reply 20 of 21, by rasz_pl

Posted on 2023-01-02, 23:34

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scruit wrote on 2023-01-02, 12:21:

I'm past "trying things until it works" - now I want to understand why it's not working at the logic level.

this threat will interest you: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible? good stuff is on second page
if you really want to understand IDE I highly recommend all the os2museum links I put there

https://github.com/raszpl/sigrok-disk FM/MFM/RLL decoder
https://github.com/raszpl/FIC-486-GAC-2-Cache-Module (AT&T Globalyst)
https://github.com/raszpl/386RC-16 ram board
https://github.com/raszpl/440BX Reference Design adapted to Kicad

Reply 21 of 21, by scruit

Posted on 2023-01-03, 23:22

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rasz_pl wrote on 2023-01-02, 23:34:

scruit wrote on 2023-01-02, 12:21:

I'm past "trying things until it works" - now I want to understand why it's not working at the logic level.

this threat will interest you: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible? good stuff is on second page
if you really want to understand IDE I highly recommend all the os2museum links I put there

A little light bedtime reading. Thank you!

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