Its rather trivial to put an ide device - i.e. a harddisk - directly on the external bus of the MPC8xx - with maybe some buffering and address decode to select between IDE's two chip selects - or if you can afford it, just use two of the 8xx's chip selects.
Steve Jerry Nguyen wrote: > Hi > > Sorry for the off-topic posting but I am stuck to this > mail list. I am doing my thesis for my Master > degree,which I want to build a IDE controller to work > with MPC821. Can anyone tell me how difficult it is? > or give advice where can I find related material, any > example would be great. sorry for my humble english. > > Thanks in advance > Jerry > -- ------------------------------------------------------- Steven K. Rossi srossi at ccrl.mot.com Staff Engineer Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory Motorola Labs ------------------------------------------------------- ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
