About ADF Files

Content by Peter H. Wendt (original HERE). Edited by Tomáš Slavotínek.


Index

These pages contain information about Adapter Description Files (ADFs), their structure, purpose, and how to differ between their many variants.

Introduction to ADFs
ADF Structure and Syntax
Adapter Description Programs (ADP)
ADP Internals
Initialization Programs
ADF Goofs and Hints
List of Planar ADFs

List of ADF files


Sources

Most of the information presented here was taken from the following manual:

IBM Personal System /2 Hardware Interface Reference Manual - Architectures, 1st Ed., Oct 1990

The manual includes additional info about ADPs and Initialization programs that was missing from the earlier releases.

Further information was obtained by reading through several hundred different ADFs and studying their content.

Content created and/or collected by:
Louis F. Ohland, Peter H. Wendt, David L. Beem, William R. Walsh, Tatsuo Sunagawa, Tomáš Slavotínek, Jim Shorney, Tim N. Clarke, Kevin Bowling, and many others.

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