Re: SCSI miniport-Custom Log messages

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I also wanted to let you know, that i have no experience with the
StorPortLogError() interface. But i am used to prefer the IoLogError...
Interface, since i know that this is absolutely the first choice for logging
information into eventlog.
I think that even though you use either interface for logging, the basic
fact is, that you must register you .sys file at the eventlogservice, so it
knows, where to extract the errorstrings...


Hi,

Following parameteres were passed, while logging an event from the miniport
driver.

StorPortLogError(abcd,
NULL, 0, 0, 0,
TEST_MSG_TEST,
0);

With this, it logged an error in the event log with an event ID=11. In the
description it displayed that it can not find description for event ID 11.


I’m wondering if StorPortLogError() ever takes any custom error messages.
When I tried following parameters, with a standard storport defined error
code as shown below.

StorPortLogError(abcd,
NULL, 0, 0, 0,
SP_BAD_FW_WARNING,
TEST_MSG_TEST);

It logged a ‘Warning’ this time with an event ID=26 and still complaing
about not finding the description in .sys file.

Even following code, generated an error with event ID=11 in the event log.

StorPortLogError(abcd,
NULL, 0, 0, 0,
TEST_MSG_TEST,
TEST_MSG_TEST);

Does this StorPortLogError() accepts custom error messages?
If so where it might be looking for the description? As changing it to
SP_BAD_FW_WARNING seems to alter the behavior.

Thanks,
Indira


"Indira" wrote:

Hi,

Thank you for the replies, here is the message table from .sys file.
I have added just one message to test and I don't see this message in the
log description.

1 MESSAGETABLE
{
65573, "Testing TEsting HBA"
}

Does this table look good?

I also include the msg.rc file generated by mc.exe as part of driver.rc.
The driver.res generated by the compiler has a message table and which is
same as .sys as shown above.

Isn’t it already linked as .sys file is referencing the table? And also if I
use IoWriteErrorLogEntry() instead of StorPortLogError(), does WHQL test not
complain about it?

Thanks,
Indira



"Volodymyr M. Shcherbyna" wrote:

If you open your sys file in resource editor (for example, reshacker), and
goto message table, what id do you see there for your custom message?

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"Indira" <Indira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Is it possible to generate custom error log messages for SCSI miniport
driver?
I tried the following but no luck:

1. Created a message (.mc) file, compiled and generated a corresponding
.rc
and .bin file, as per WDK and sample code.

2. Updated .inf file for event log as mentioned in the WDK and added .sys
file to look for messages.

3. Calling StorPortLogError() with this custom error ID.

After installing this driver, an event is getting logged in the event log,
however it complains that it's not able to find the description.

The following message is displayed in the description instead of my custom
error message.

"The description for Event ID ( 11 ) in Source (xyz) cannot be found. The
local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message
DLL
files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use
the
/AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for
details. The following information is part of the event:
\Device\RaidPort8.
"

Is it possible to have custom error messages in storport-miniport driver?
If
so could some one please point out the missing thing in the above steps?

Thanks,
Indira




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