Who doesn't want a micropython board with gigabytes of code space ? :-)
The README says this option relies on the kernel's "ATA framework" (presumably for the protocol/non-interfacing logic?). Is that part of the "talking to a drive" stack very much to have to implement? Or do you know of any existing code for microcontrollers?
There's a couple of registers which need to be set: https://wiki.osdev.org/ATA_PIO_Mode and you can then just read/write the data from the parallel lines.
Here's a similar project using an ATmega32: https://github.com/zwostein/idetrol (i used this code, ported to ARM to check my hardware before I wrote the kerneldriver)
But if I told you what it was, I’d get downvoted. So have fun with GPIO.
Or, more specifically, a driver to turn an IDE port into GPIO pins that PC programs can control. Closing the gap on making a feature-complete Windows 95 arduino core.
But it can do it, anyway. Lovely hack.
This does look really cool.
