I'm a new in the ada world ... Can you give me more details. What type for the data_value ? Is the library Vendor_Specific_IO_Library is avaible on all ada compilers ? a �crit dans le message : FITw4.4090$w9.85382@news.pacbell.net... > >This is really an OS question, not an Ada question. > Agreed that Microsoft's latest computers don't allow such access > by user programs directly to the underlying Intel computers. But > even if the program does have such access, the relevant IO ports > would be in the IO address space, not the memory address space. So > for Reg_1'address use To_Address(16#378#); > will do the wrong thing. Something like > Vendor_Specific_IO_Library.Output(port=>16#378#, data=>data_value); > would be necessary instead. >