IDE knowledge anyone?

[Jon Elson]

On 12/06/2015 02:57 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've built a Harddisk-Controller-Emulator for my system 
> which accesses
> a IDE (PATA) harddisk with an ATMega in PIO mode. It works 
> like a charm
> except for one WD harddisk. The harddisk itself works fine 
> with MS-DOS
> 6.22 and FreeBSD but refuses to work with my ATMega.
>
> On reading or writing a sector, right after the command is 
> issued, the
> error bit is set in the status register, and the error 
> register indicates
> an ABRT.
>
I don't have any specific knowledge of this, but it has to 
be a timing problem.
Something about the timing of the command signals is just 
different enough that the drive thinks this is wrong.  Sorry 
I can't give more specific help.

Jon