<story><title>A Linux driver to connect PATA/IDE directly to GPIO</title><url>https://github.com/Manawyrm/pata-gpio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>myself248</author><text>Going the other way, a PATA port in PIO mode can be used as GPIO: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hackaday.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;stk200-pocket-change-programmer&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hackaday.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;stk200-pocket-change-program...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A Linux driver to connect PATA/IDE directly to GPIO</title><url>https://github.com/Manawyrm/pata-gpio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crizzlenizzle</author><text>An interesting project I found on twitter. Interfacing PATA&amp;#x2F;IDE directly to Raspberry Pi’s GPIO is pretty trivial and manages to transfer 500 KiB&amp;#x2F;s. Enough to play CDs. The driver code is around 500 LOC.</text></comment>