With RS232 quickly being replaced by USB, the nightmare of incorrectly wired appliances and forgotten baud-rates will hopefully be a thing of the past. Unfortunately RS232 will still be with us for a long time to come and, as it becomes used less frequently, the exact parity and baud-rates for devices can easily be forgotten...
Hardware was designed and partially debugged for work to begin on a HDD version using 2.5" drives with USB 2.0 connection but active development on this branch has stalled due to the low cost of high capacity SD cards. The work done so far is available from CVS under the ATA branch. The case designs for the basic SD/MMC versions are complete.