CDROM interfacing

[Daniek]

Hey.


I was wondering if any of you had any experience with interfacing to an IDE CD-ROM with a PIC, or have any good links.
What i would like to do is make a cd player, so i dont really need to read the data, just send some commands(i think). I would like to add some features like fast forward, one track back, one track forwards and perhaps be able to enter a track number, but i find the IDE interface a bit scary.


Thanks.

 

[geko]

Silicon chip magazine have a two part article on this:

http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_109528/article.html
http://www.siliconchip.com.au:80/cms/A_109653/article.html

It's based on an Atmega microcontroller but there's plenty of useful information withing the article.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Hey.


I was wondering if any of you had any experience with interfacing to an IDE CD-ROM with a PIC, or have any good links.
What i would like to do is make a cd player, so i dont really need to read the data, just send some commands(i think). I would like to add some features like fast forward, one track back, one track forwards and perhaps be able to enter a track number, but i find the IDE interface a bit scary.

Just google, there have been various PIC based CD players on the net, although it's so long ago now they may no longer be on-line?.

 

[Daniek]

Well. I tried googling, but couldn't find anything useful. found a few IDE harddisk projects, but that's quite a bit different than what i'm looking for.

 

[ClydeCrashKop]

Try this: https://www.google.ca/advanced_search?hl=en It is much better that a search engine that is “Powered by Google”

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Knew I had a link stored somewhere!

https://web.archive.org/web/20050308194836/private.addcom.de/KeithWilson/Projects/mucop.htm

 

[Daniek]

Ahh.

Thanks Nigel, just what i was looking for.
Unfortunately though, the site is no longer being maintained, and the actual schematic, source code and all of that is not available.