Book Reviews:The Indispensable PC Hardware Book

chase · Post by **chase** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:07 pm

This thread is a place to discuss the book titled The Indispensable PC Hardware Book located on the Books wiki page.

carbonBased · Post by **carbonBased** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:54 pm

I purchased this book as a reference for various different hardware protocols, device interfaces, and memory maps, and have been very pleased with it.

Anybody writting x86 device drivers should have this on the desk next to them at all times.

Considering this forum frequently has issues posted regarding troubles writting floppy and ide drivers, I believe this would be useful for people in these situations, as well.

--Jeff

Candy · Post by **Candy** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:47 am

Which is the most recent edition? I have the 3rd and 4th here, is there a new one?

As for the book, I consider the 3rd edition better than the 4th, especially since the new topics aren't covered as deep as they used to be. It's less useful than before because most information can be gotten from Wikipedia nowadays. I do keep it handy, got the 3rd ed. at work for looking up SCSI error codes (appendix H at the end), although it would be equally fast to look them up online.

turtling · Post by **turtling** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:28 pm

I want to buy this book, but it seems to be unavailable

Which book can replace it? Or is the Indispensable PC hardware book really is indispensable?