Need help building a driver for "True-IDE" Microdrives

[ravic]

attacted pictures of seagate microdrive internals. Circuit board is not visible though

[star882]

It's interesting how the MEMS unit looks like inside, but that's not very helpful. Plus, the seal is now broken so it won't work anymore.
I'd want a high resolution view of the controller PCB.

[dan52575]

hey i am now a proud owner of an x50v and a ipod drive i was wondering if you guys have gotten anywhere with drivers :)

[daemonize]

Hi guys,

I bought a muvo2 that I took appart to extract the 4GB hitachi microdrive inside, and realized like many that it couldn't be read in my axim x50v. I am really pissed off about hitachi's microdrives right now ... Anyway, I'm a linux developper, pretty far away from what you guys are doing but if I can't help in any ways, feel free to post some instructions ! I tried installing the atapi.dll driver, but that didn't help ...

[darkdestroyer]

Any new developments on this driver?

[webergao]

ravic try this:
Fantastic piece of information. If I may I will explain in simple terms what I did which now allows me to use PPC2003 with my PCMCIA hard drives. It follows what you said but a little more simply for less experienced users:-
1. first install 'exdrive.exe` onto your Pocket PC, available from
http://www.tjotala.com/software/winc...gebrickdriver/ or
http://www.c1au.com/addonics/main.htm
2. Use a Registry editor (I used Resco) on the PPC,
Open the following:-
HKEY_Local_Machine / Drivers / PCMCIA / ATADISK
Change the following entry `atadisk.dll` to `exdrive.dll`
Do not worry about the warning message.
Do exactly the same re.
HKEY_Local_Machine / Drivers / PCMCIA / ATADISK2
3. In either of the above entries copy the `iClass registry entry`
4. Look in ALL the folders in the PCMCIA section of the Registry.
If ANY of them show the 'exdrive.dll' then PASTE the 'iClass
registry entry into that section. There will be several sections
containing the 'exdrive.dll'. These are the entries which control
the different types of ATA hard drives that are recognised by
PPC2003. By pasting into each entry you will ensure that if you
have a compatible hard drive attached to your PCMCIA card it will
be recognised.
5. Perform a reset of the PPC, and your drive will appear in File
Explorer, providong it is compatible.
AS AN ADDITIONAL BONUS
I also have a PPC running PocketPC 2002. Using the `exdrive` driver it used to recognise one of my PMCIA hard drives, but ignored the other.
The Registry entries are different in 2002, but I found that if I
just changed the .dll as above in
HKEY_Local_Machine / Drivers / PCMCIA / ATADISK
and
HKEY_Local_Machine / Drivers / PCMCIA / ATADISK2
from `atadisk.dll` to `exdrive.dll`
then both drives were recognised. No other Registry modifications were needed.
Good Luck!

[UnLoGiC]

So this means that an Ipod drive would work on the X50v?

[bigbop]

ravic try this:
Fantastic piece of information. If I may I will explain in simple terms what I did which now allows me to use PPC2003 with my PCMCIA hard drives. It follows what you said but a little more simply for less experienced users:-

WOW :approve:
This is a great find - and FREE TOO
Maybe someone can contact the author to persuade him to upgrade the driver for 2003SE (fix any bugs, etc). It looks like the driver allows reading of IDE type drives from the CF slot. Cool.

Thanks!

[dr0832]

If this works this would be great however, I just went into the registry on my X50v and went to HKEY_Local_Machine / Drivers / PCMCIA / ATADISK and changed atadisk.dll to exedrive.dll (do I need to use '' or are those just there to show which key to change?) , but I can not find HKEY_Local_Machine / Drivers / PCMCIA / ATADISK2. Also when I look under IClass under, Data it says: unimplemented and when I click on IClass there is nothing under Multi-String Value Data so I can't copy the IClass key unless I am just suppose to copy a key with no data in it. Am I suppose to do this? Also under HKEY_Local_Machine / Drivers / PCMCIA / Detect / 50, I see a key that says ATADISK.DLL. Do I need to do anything to this? I really would like to get this too work because I have an OEM 4GB Hitachi Microdrive that I really want to get working in my X50v or else I have to return it asap.

I dont have a drive to test... (make a backup of your ppc before experimenting!)
But the " " just indicate what to put in without the quotes.
I think its possible you just dont have an ATAdisk2. Just skip that step
He didnt say anything about that key, so just skip that ATAdisk.dll.

use the search to find the other exdrive.dll references to paste that. Its quite possible you will just paste a IClass multistring value data that is empty... maybe use the search to see if you can find other instances of the Iclass and compare.

[dr0832]

I tried to do this registry hack to get a 4GB hitachi oem microdrive working with my X50V and it did not work so nobody should bother doing this if your using this hardware.

[HackeR_54]

Did you type in EXDRIVE.DLL? not EX-->E<--DRIVE.DLL

I tried to do this registry hack to get a 4GB hitachi oem microdrive working with my X50V and it did not work so nobody should bother doing this if your using this hardware.

all the more reason others should try it. Might just work right?

[dr0832]

Yeah others should try definitely. I was just saying it unfortunately did not work with my X50v and a 4GB OEM Hitachi

[rooslix]

I`ve tried the registry hacks listed in this thread using both exdrive.dll and atapi.dll to no avail. Normally, just typing in the dll name when "unknown device" pops up works, I have tried this before with an unrecognized wlan card on my X5 by typing in "prism.dll". I`m guessing that ide support on ppc requires either a new dll file or some major registry modification to get it to work.