Quote: 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).
Heck, for that matter, NO extra GPIO pin is needed if one is willing to add a tiny bit of extra (chip) logic onto the board. A small 4-bit mux, for example.
But even simpler, a tiny bit of rewiring (no new GPIO, no new chips) at the header and IDE cables could likely suffice --> just send a different address line to CS2 of each drive pair.
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