by Tomi Engdahl on Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:56 am
Here is one list of PC I/O ports
http://mudlist.eorbit.net/~adam/pickey/ports.html
Some of those are the same in nowaday's PCs, some details have changed.
Nowadays it is not a good idea to try to access directly the hard disk drive, floppy drive, mouse port, keyboard port, soudn card etc... I/O ports. The operating system drivers do the communications with those systems nicely. If you try to mess up them yourself, you most propably cause something strange and potentially harmful (computer crashes etc..) to happen.
Parallel port is an interface you can pretty safely access in direct I/O port level on PC system.
Here is one list of PC I/O ports
http://mudlist.eorbit.net/~adam/pickey/ports.html
Some of those are the same in nowaday's PCs, some details have changed.
Nowadays it is not a good idea to try to access directly the hard disk drive, floppy drive, mouse port, keyboard port, soudn card etc... I/O ports. The operating system drivers do the communications with those systems nicely. If you try to mess up them yourself, you most propably cause something strange and potentially harmful (computer crashes etc..) to happen.
Parallel port is an interface you can pretty safely access in direct I/O port level on PC system.