IDE knowledge anyone?

[Joseph Lang]

Since identify and read buffer return consistent data, timing would appear to be ok. I would change the parameters used for read. iIRC you used chs =0/0/0. Try chs=1/1/1 

Joe

> On Dec 8, 2015, at 4:38 PM, Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de> wrote:
> 
>> Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> On 2015-12-08 2:16 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
>>>>> Hi Warner, hi Brad,
>>>>> ...
>>>>> I don't intend to use this harddrive anyway, I just fear that I made a
>>>>> misstake in my circuit or the code and others intending to use my
>>>>> emulator also experiencing problems with their drives too.
>>>> 
>>>> Well, it's certainly interesting. I'm curious now whether your WDC AC31600H would work with my PIC code. :)
>>> 
>>> I checked it now with an old 486-DX50 EISA+VLB board (rare combination ;))
>>> with a Goldstar Prime 2 and an Acer M5105 ISA Controller. Both detect and
>>> work fine with this harddisk. No idea what mode they work but I guess it
>>> is PIO 0-whatever only - no DMA involved....
>>> 
>>> Damn this drives me nuts.... either I accept it, or I get a logic analyzer
>>> but the cost of such a thing..... :/
>> 
>> But - if the flanks or the timing would not be right - how could the IDENTIFY
>> command work without any error? If the flanks would not be straight or /RD is
>> not active long enough or whatever - shouldnt return the IDENTIFY an error as
>> well? I'd say so......
> 
> I just changed the "READ" command to a "FORMAT" command and now the drive wants
> me to fill up the sector buffer (which I don't do) but at least the command is
> accepted and does not immediatly return ERR.... what the heck?
> 
> Read Buffer also works after the read-command-error - but now idea if the buffer
> contains anything which could help me here....
> 
> 7a424c0c0000100000e158023f001000
> 00000e004457572d3254393839313032
> 31392034202020200300000116003332
> 312e5536333744572043434131333036
> 48302020202020202020202020202020
> 20202020202020202020202020201080
> 0000002f000080020000020000000000
> 0000000000000001406b300000000704
> 030078007800a0007800000000000000
> 00000000000000000000000000000000
> ...
> 00000000000000000000000000000000
> 00000000000000000000000000007800
> 
> No idea what this gives me.... the contents are reproducable
>