[Coco] NitrOS9 driver for Tandy RS232 Pak?

[Christopher Hawks]

Steven Hirsch said the following on 12/28/2008 01:00 PM:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> 
>> The standard driver is ACIAPAK, but if Bruce Isted's SACIA is still 
>> part of the NitrOS9 distribution, use it instead (much more advanced, 
>> larger buffers, and can run at higher speeds). You will have to make 
>> sure that you're descriptor is pointing to the right driver. You can 
>> reliably run 9600 baud this way, and even 19.2k if you are downloading 
>> files using a non-steaming protocol (like YModem/XModem, bit not 
>> ZModem) and are running a 6309 chip with the appropriate version of 
>> Nitros.
> 
> Thanks for all the responses.  Each of them assumes knowledge not in 
> evidence on my part, but there are enough overlapping bits that I should 
> be able to hack through it :-).
> 
> In particular, there is a fragment of documentation in the NitrOS9 docs 
> subdirectory that mentions "ACIA51" and has some verbiage on the 
> subject. However, it's not included in anything other than the L1 manual 
> so I'm uncertain as to whether it applies to L2.
> 
> None of the subject drivers appear to be supplied in the NitrOS9 source 
> distribution.

In /nitros9/level1/modules/
sc6551.asm      - driver source (Level 1 and Level 2)
t2_sc6551.asm   - descriptor source (Level 1 and Level 2)

In /nitros9/level1/coco/modules/
sc6551.dr       - driver
t2_sc6551.dd    - descriptor

And /nitros9/level2/coco3/modules/
sc6551.dr       - driver
t2_sc6551.dd    - descriptor

There are for the Tandy RS232 pak.

Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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