A Linux driver to connect PATA/IDE directly to GPIO

Re:A Linux driver to connect PATA/IDE directly to GPIO by stefan_ on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:14PM (#24096521)

How can this be so easy but talking to an SD card is an impossible task without implementing a billion vendor/type quirks.

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Re:A Linux driver to connect PATA/IDE directly to GPIO by myself248 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:38PM (#24096607)

ATA was implemented by engineers and then described in a spec.

SD was designed by committee and then implemented as best they could.

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Re:A Linux driver to connect PATA/IDE directly to GPIO by Galanwe on Saturday August 08, 2020 @11:15PM (#24096988)

Ooh the hours lost trying to reverse the proper call sequence and frequency for my SD card, thanks for the reminder.

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