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From: eric@sunic.sunet.se (Eric Thomas SUNET)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370
Subject: Re: More dorky questions from me
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Date: 21 Sep 90 17:20:51 GMT
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In article <9009210036.AA13133@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussion List <ASM370@OHSTVMA.BITNET> writes:
>Hmmm... ok, how do you check for a device end?  Please remember that this is
>all done with interrupts ... some people haven't figured this out yet :-)

A device end is an interrupt, like an attention; it's just a different bit to
test in the 5th byte of the CSW (ie CSW+4). Attention is X'80', device end is
X'04'. Note that it may not come alone, actually if you're doing a read it will
definitely not come alone, so use a TM rather than a CLI.

  Eric