Reading a port on the IBM/AT's DMA
Steve Hutzley
hutzley at bigq.dec.com
Fri Nov 2 03:46:25 AEST 1990
Does anyone have any code or ideas on how I can read and log the
information written and read from the IBM-PC/AT's DMA port 0x0E.
I have an ALLOY TIP40 tape drive that talks directly to the DMA port to
control the drive, and would like to rewrite the interface for the
program in C myself to add some useabillity to it. I particulrly don't
care for they're interface (IMO).
I had an idea of using a TSR to constantly monitor the port and log the
info to a file (like give the TSR 60% of the time slices and the rest
to the tape program.)
I have dis-assembled the program itself, but being very weak in
assembly language, I didn't get much out of it, other than it was that
port on the DMA. I cant tell what codes they are sending to the drive
to control it.
Any Ideas?
Steve
DEC, Hudson, Ma.
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