Storing Data on a HDD

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There are a number of interfacing projects on the web that deal with parallel ATA or IDE hard drives. Many of them use the old 8255 triple 8-bit I/O port chip, so something must be possible with the AVR/Arduino. Have a look at his one:

http://www.pjrc.com/tech/8051/ide/wesley.html

This example is beased on the ZX Spectrum:

http://baze.au.com/divide/

This is generically Z80 based:

http://www.retroleum.co.uk/ide_interface.html

And this is the page on disk drives from the PIClist site:

http://www.piclist.com/techref/drives.htm