[Coco] OS-9 device descriptor list

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Sat Jan 8 01:07:01 EST 2011


There are rumors that /Yx has been spotted in the wild, sitting in
between remote file systems such as FTP sites or the local disks of a
drivewire server and what OS9 thinks is a regular RBF device.

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote:
> I've been compiling this list for a few days...  It's all the device
> descriptors I've ever heard of under OS-9/6X09.
>
> /Dx    disk drive ccdisk
> /DD    default disk
> /Fx    WDDISK floppy
> /FTDD  Flight simII virq/memory allocation device
> /Hx    hard disk
> /Hxx   WDDISK partitioned hard drive(?)
> /Ix    Superdriver IDE device
> /ICx   IDE CDROM CDF
> /IH    Superdriver IDE HDB-DOS device
> /LDx   WDdisk floppy(?)
> /Mx    modem pak modpak
> /MD    memory disk
> /MIDI  midi port
> /NL    null device
> /Nx    drivewire network terminal
> /NIL   null device
> /P     bitbanger printer
> /P     eliminator parallel printer port ppia
> /P     drivewire printer
> /Px    printer
> /PIA0  parallel printer port piapak
> /PIPE  pipe device
> /Rx    ram disk
> /Sx    SuperDriver SCSI device
> /SCx   SCSI CDROM CDF
> /SH    SuperDriver SCSI HDB-DOS device
> /SSP   speech-sound pak
> /Tx    serial port (terminal)
> /Tx    Glenside IDE Test device
> /TERM  console
> /Vx    VDG screen
> /VI    KQ3 virtual interrupt device
> /Wx    windint window
> /WECHO /term that echos to /wp
> /WP    wordpak
> /Xx    drivewire disk
>
> Anybody know of any others?
>
> Willard
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