Re: which kind of driver to design for AoE protocol?

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I checked with a company that I have done work for with a full storage port,
they have definitely been told that this will not WHQL for Vista. If the OP
can live with XP, 2003 and later, I believe the virtual miniports work
Microsoft has is the best approach. Note: if you do go the full port driver
route, expect a lot of work, since upper layers of the storage stack are
extremely sensitive to the interface (to the poiint if you return an
unexpected error code something strange can happen) and the storage team
views this interface as proprietary and does not document it or the changes.


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Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
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"Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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After reading the MS doc "Getting Started with the Windows Driver
Development Environment", the first and most obvious question is "which
kind
of driver should I build?"

Full storage port I think, with NDIS protocol lower egde.

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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
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