Trudie - The Next IDE Board

[Icky]

Thats my Xmas planned by @exxos then

[exxos]

Thats my Xmas planned by @exxos then

Yep, No rest for you over xmas

[exxos]

Not really a update..but., as I need to spend a lot if time figuring out the byteswap stuff ( time I don't have currently ) I am thinking of producing the fixed v1 design https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =73&t=1640 as kits that people can build up themselves as before. Its a tried and tested design now so I think its a bit of a shame not to get some more of them out there in the wild.

[PhilC]

It works well enough for me so it gets my vote.

Will there be a firmware update with byte swapping available in the future for this board?

[exxos]

Trudie only has the buffers to do the byte swap. I just don't have time to work on Trudie, which is why I think pushing out some v1 boards will have to do for this year.

[PhilC]

Thanks for confirming. Will make a good low cost IDE board for your store.

[exxos]

Thought I would throw this "out there".. Can someone find how to read the CF cards model/brand and capacity.. I can only really suspect its in some register in the CF card somewhere. I've been looking for hours There doesn't seem to be any proper info out there which explains actually how to do it

[PhilC]

I've seen a few references to CIS or Card Information Structure and it appears to have something to do with that.

I've had a look at a few datasheets which list addresses for certain things but must confess I haven't a clue, I can post a link or two to the pdfs if that helps?

[exxos]

Icky found this one.. seems to make more sense than the ones I found so far...

http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDo ... TAPI-5.pdf

[exxos]

After doing a bit of reading in that document above, I think I realise what is going wrong now. It is what I suspected before that I need to add the data lines to the PLD. The current Trudie does not have them, but Icky did these changes some weeks ago to the PCB. So I'll get a few of these made up so I can do the new firmware etc The annoying thing is it delays this project again

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I'm also working on a smaller version more intended for the H4. I am also thinking is there really any need to add a slave IDE port ? CF cards can easily exceed the partition account and size, and the only thing I could think people would want a second port is for something like a CD-ROM. So currently I am designing the new board with only one port as I think just is not needed to have 2.