[Coco] Q: Burke & Burke hard disk controller

[Ciaran Anscomb]

Steven Hirsch wrote:
> 
> Or, will a 16-bit IDE drive work while throwing away half its 
> capacity (no access to the upper byte of data)?

Yes, this definitely works.  I recently picked up an IDE/CompactFlash
interface off Ebay for the BBC Master, and it is an 8-bit interface.
8 bits of each 16-bit transfer are simply discarded.

Looking around a bit revealed that at least the most common ATA commands
are all contained within 8 bits.

..ciaran
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Ciaran Anscomb, Perl/C Hacker