Peripheral Interfaces and Devices Docs

Macintosh

• Legacy Macintosh peripherals

ATA, ATAPI

• ​ATA-1 (ANSI X3.221-1994)
• ​ATA-2 (ANSI X3.279-1996)
• ​ATA-3 (ANSI X3.298-1997)
• ​ATA/ATAPI-4 (ANSI NCITS 317-1998)
• ​ATA/ATAPI-5 (ANSI NCITS 340-2000)
• ​ATA/ATAPI-6 (ANSI NCITS 361-2002)
• ​ATA/ATAPI-7 (NCITS 397-2005) vol. 1
• ​ATA/ATAPI-7 (NCITS 397-2005) vol. 2
• ​ATA/ATAPI-7 (NCITS 397-2005) vol. 3
• ​SFF-8020 ATA Packet Interface for CD-ROMs
• ​Intel ® 82801CA (ICH3), 82801BA (ICH2), 82801AA (ICH), and 82801AB (ICH0) IDE Controller Programmer’s Reference Manual

SATA

• ​AHCI Specification for Serial ATA rev. 1.3
• ​Serial ATA rev. 3

SCSI

• ​SAM-4 r13 - SCSI Architecture Model - 4 (webarchive)
• ​SPC-4 r11 - SCSI Primary Commands - 4 (webarchive)
• ​SBC-3 r10 - SCSI Block Commands - 3 (webarchive)
• ​MMC-5 r04 - Multimedia Command Set - 5 (webarchive)
• ​Old SCSI-2 Standard

Floppy Disks

• ​Floppy Disk Controller information

Audio

• ​Intel AC'97 Specification rev. 2.3 1.0
• ​Intel ® 82801AA (ICH) & Intel ® 82801AB (ICH0) I/O Controller Hub AC ’97
• ​Intel HD Audio Specification rev. 1.0

Graphics

• ​AMD/ATI GPU Documentation (2-D and 3-D) at x.org
• ​Intel GPU Documentation at Intel OSTC
• ​GPU documentation released by Nvidia
• ​Reverse-engineered USB DisplayLink

Keyboard

• ​Interfacing the PC AT keyboard / Beyond Logic
• ​Intel 8042 (PS/2 keyboard/mouse port controller) / stanislavs.org

USB

• ​USB 2.0 Specification
• ​USB 3.0 Specification
• ​USB UHCI Design Guide (i.e. specification) rev. 1.1
• ​USB OHCI Specification rev. 1.0a
• ​USB EHCI Specification v1.0
• ​USB EHCI Specification Addendum v1.1
• ​USB xHCI Specification for USB 3.0
• ​USB Device Classes specifications

NIC

• ​DP8390D/NS32490D NIC Network Interface Controller
• ​AMD Am79C90 CMOS Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet (C-LANCE)
• ​Realtek 8168B Gigabit Ethernet

Printing

• ​Undocumented Printing Wiki - Great reference for printer HW information, PDLs