Technote HW 04

December 1986

When the event is posted, the message field of the event record will be a long word (four bytes). The most significant byte will contain the value of SCC Read Register 0 (see below for the relevant Read Register 0 values). The next byte will contain the changed (since the last interrupt) bits of the SCC read register 0. The lower two bytes (word) will contain the DCtlRefNum.

The values for Read Register 0 are as follows:

* f a break occurred, bit 7 will be set.

* If CTS changed, bit 5 will reflect the state of the CTS pin (0 means the handshake line is asserted and that it is OK to transmit).

We discourage posting these events because interrupts would be disabled for a long time while the event is being posted. However, it is possible to detect a break or read the value of the CTS line in another way. A break condition will always terminate a serial driver input request (but not an output request), and the error breakRecd (-90) will be returned. (This constant is defined in the SysEqu file.) You could therefore detect a break by checking the returned error code.

The state of the CTS line can be checked by making a SerStatus call and checking the value of the ctsHold flag in the SerStaRec record. See the Serial Drivers chapter of Inside Macintosh for details.

Further Reference:

• * The Device Manager
• * Serial Drivers
• * Zilog Z8030/Z8530 SCC Serial Communications Controller Technical Manual

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