How to create a driver?

[answer]

I need to create a driver which does low level reading and writing to the parallel port,

What mode should the driver be in?
How to create the driver?

[SDavies]

Well, the hard way is to use the Windows DDK, but there are third party pieces of software that will do it for you. WinDriver is a good tool (it's not free, but excellent), but I don't know if it deals with the parallel port.

[ohadben]

Hi, I've used WinDriver in the past to do just that. At the time their support service refered me to this link which was quite helpful: http://www.jungo.com/support/tech_docs/td96.html

[ragnork83]

Does WinDriver support driver development for the PCMCIA card bus.

[SDavies]

Yes it does. As far as Windriver is concerned the PCMCIA bus is the same as the PCI bus, is the same as the PCIExpress bus just different form factors. I have only used the PCI bus personally however.