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.
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.
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.
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.