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I saw Hale ask for other people to define residue ...

Now at:

http://members.aol.com/plscsi/199402/residual.txt

you can see a copy of an announcement of Adaptec's decision to bother to measure 
residue, dated February, 1994, taken from a contemporaneous aspisdk.exe.

Included is the definition from Adaptec:

"Residual byte length is the number of bytes not transferred to, or received from, the 
target SCSI device.

And the examples:

"For example, if the ASPI buffer length for a SCSI Inquiry command is set for 100 
bytes, but the target only returns back 36 bytes, this makes for a residual length of 
64 bytes.

"Another example, if the ASPI buffer length for a SCSI write command is set for 514 
bytes, but the target only takes 512 bytes, this makes for a residual length of 2 
bytes.

Enjoy.    Pat LaVarre

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