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Hi,

i'm interested in this project, so that the raspberry PI could appear as several IDE devices, specifically ATAPI devices.
Following the same functionality as RaSCSI the raspberry pi could be used to mount and present disc images. ATAPI devices for vintage computers and keyboards/samplers are failing (due to their age) and being able to upload CD, Zip (100mb, 250mb and 750mb) disk images and present them as a device would be super useful.

Happy to throw some beer/coffee tokens into the hat to help motivate/support.

Best.

Hello!

I found link to this project from https://hackaday.com/2020/08/10/raspberry-pi-gets-pata-ide-drive-via-gpio-header/

Could you please add information about license of this repository — is it allowed to copy, change and use code in any purpose?
It would be great to see any popular open source license.

If your code is based on Linux kernel, then GPLv2 is the best choice, I think.

I realise that this project doesn't currently have many practical uses since a simple USB to IDE adapter will do a much better job. But we could make this project useful by adding support for hard drives without LBA support. Early IDE drives are not readable by most modern IDE interfaces and this can be a pain for vintage computer owners, by adding support for those drives this immediately becomes a useful project to a lot of people.

As a first step we could allow manual configuration of drives similar to an old BIOS type 1-46 + a custom parameter mode. And later also detect pre-LBA drives with autodetect parameters.

I am more than happy to help with this.