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PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

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Re: PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

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Well sounds like I may have jumped the gun yet again. I managed to nab a IDE Simulator v3 by Tattiebogle in Sept. Maybe I should have waited for this. This has happened to me before so I wonder if maybe word got out that this was coming so others got their products out asap?

I wouldn't worry too hard about it, if you need something, you don't need a potential something. Until something is released and being sold/distributed, it's not something you should necessarily consider a real option. Don't be too hard on yourself. We've all bought hardware that saw alternatives come out, or extreme price drops before we get around to using it. Right now, I'm just glad I bought a couple nvme drives…

Thanks. I just find it happening to myself more and more recently. It happened with N64 HDMI adapters, Gamecube ODEs, and even Mini PCs. I'd follow youtubers only to discover that better solutions came out right afterwards. I don't have time to follow the deep forums 24/7 and so I guess I am at a disadvantage because everything from blogs to forum posts to youtube is probably just disguised marketing at this point.

Yeah I just heard about the RAM price hikes today. Congrats on nabbing something you needed at the right time. I guess I should just celebrate when I do get some wins.

Re: PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

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I've been waiting on something like this for years, I'm surprised it took so long for someone to do it since there's been those gotek floppy drive emulators and things like bluescsi for forever. This seriously just made my day.

It took so long because IDE _is_ good old PC AT ISA bus with all of its warts. History wall of text: First PC hard drives were Seagate ST-412 with matching MFM controller plugged into 8bit ISA slot of original IBM XT PC. Drive connected to controller in pretty much exact same way as a floppy - signals controlling STEP/DIRection, selecting HEAD/Drive, and finally pre-processed READ/WRITE data in form of impulses (inst…

I can only say that from purely user/tinkerer POV (not some low-level system programmer) the best memory of IDE/PATA I have is when the PCs have finally moved on to SATA/AHCI. Phew.
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