[Robotgroup] CD/hard drive hacks?

[Andre Lamothe]

Sure, you either just de-solder the connectors and control directly, OR 
write IDE interface commands to the drive and control the heads manually, 
you can seek to track, sector, etc. I have made disk drives play music 
before in the 80's (no IDE interface of course then), but I have done it to 
floppy drives and IDE hard drives. Basically, if you write a disk disk 
driver then you have to control the drive mechanics yourself which is what 
you are trying to do.

So really all you need to do is decide on the drive, the interface, make an 
interface, and then throw commands at it with a microcontroller or whatver 
you want to connect it to.

Andre'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "brooksdesign" <brooksdesign at peoplepc.com>
To: <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: [Robotgroup] CD/hard drive hacks?


> Anybody out there ever hacked into the read/write heads of a hard drive or 
> CD burner and their actuators? More to the point the manual control of the 
> signals going in and out without the use of a proccessor as there would be 
> no need for tracking for the intended use.
> -brooks
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