Urgent help: Interfacing hard-disk and microcontroller

[dayanandasaraswati]

fatfs

Hello friends,
I want help integrating an IDE hard-disk and a microcontroller. I found certain solutions in net with 8051/8052. But 8051 transfers data at really slow rates. I want descent data transfer rates upto 20Mbps. Help me out. What microcontrollers should i use. It should also be cheap. If you feel my requirements can be achieved using some other devices please give me detailed information on the same.

Thank you loads for your help

 

[syte]

an1045 help

hi friend,

copied below, is the site where you will get all the c libraries and fatfs module,needed to impliment interfacing a hard disk on any microcontroller of your choice..
excellent it is....

http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/00index_e.html

 

[btbass]

microcontroller interfacing with hard disk

Microchip application note AN1045 contains information and source code to intrface one of their 16 bit micros, pic30, pic33, pic24 to a FAT16 or FAT32 disc I/O system.
These chips can clock up to 30Mips so you might get the transfer rates your after.