Channels S thru 7 are word-wide channels so the address lines used are A 1 thru A23.
Address line AD is always forced to zero. The address register on these channels provides
address lines A 16 thru A 1 and address lines A23 through A 17 come from bits 7 through 1
of the page register. Bit 0 of the page register is not used. Care should be taken in making
sure that the counts and addresses are in words rather than bytes.
Table D.S lists I/O ports used for writing commands to the DMA controllers.
Table D.5
Controller Command I/C) Ports
Controller
1
2
1/0 \Nrite
1/0 Read
ODOH
008H
Command Register
Status Register
OD2H
009H
Request Register
illegal
OD4H
OOAH
Single Mask Register
illegal
OD6H
OOSH
Mode Register
illegal
OD8H
OOCH
Clear Byte Pointer Flag
illegal
ODAH
OOOH
Master Clear Command
Temporary Register
ODCH
OOEH
Clear Mask Command
illegal
OOEH
OOFH
Multi-Mask Register
illegal
0.2
8259A Interrupt Controllers
The system has three 8259A inte'rrupt controllers. They are arranged as a master interrupt
controller and two slaves that are cascaded through the master. Table D.6 shows the I/O ports
for these interrupt controllers and how they are cascaded.
I/O Port Map
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