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Has anybody else thought about hacking in another ide channel on a mk2 player.
I've just been giving it some thought, and think it should be possible if we can find a couple of spare gpio pins. And make a modified ide cable (4 connectors but some of the control pins for the 2 new drivers would need to be diverted to new gpio pins).

Just a though, not sure what kernel changes would be required (Mark care to comment?)


A single "spare" GPIO (or just plain Ouput) pin is enough to do this, possibly in combination with an inverter. The kernel change is trivial (for me).

The extra signal is best if routed over the existing IDE header. There are pins there that we don't currently need, so freeing one or two of those up is relatively easy.

Cheers


Edited by mlord (11/09/2007 11:26)