Hard disk interface to Arduino interface?

Hard disk interface to Arduino interface?#123372

By Dillon - Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:00 pm

- Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:00 pm #123372

Has anyone ever tried to interface an IDE or SATA hard drive to the arduino and really gotten it to work? I have been considering this for a project I am working on. Any suggestions/help would be appreciated.

Dillon

Re: Hard disk interface to Arduino interface?#123384

By skimask - Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:22 pm

- Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:22 pm #123384

IDE...yes...and it's been done a hundred times, a hundred different ways, by a thousand different people, with a dozen different types of MCUs (PIC, Arduino, 8051+variants, and so on).
www.t13.org has a load of datasheets on how to do it.

SATA...haven't played with it yet, but I'm sure it's not impossible if you've got an MCU capable of the data rates.

I ignore "one post wonders".

Re: Hard disk interface to Arduino interface?#123392

By stevech - Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:55 pm

- Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:55 pm #123392

hard disk interfaces...
PATA, maybe, but RAM quantity is an issue.
SATA, gigabit speeds?

SD cards - easy, via SPI, with public domain FAT32 software.

Ethernet to network disk: probably a lot easier than PATA/SATA.

Ethernet to FTP/TFTP server: easier yet.

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