Re: WS2003-STD Hotfix 838894 (Storport driver v5.2.3790.173)

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From: Jerold Schulman (Jerry_at_jsiinc.com)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:46:27 -0400

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:27:51 -0700, "JW" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Where can we get this fix to a buggy Microsoft product.
>
>Veritas and SOny have both confirmed that it is a buggy
>STORPOINT driver that has caused much grief with a tape
>backup on a production server. However, thewre seems no
>way to download this software directly from MS, without
>issuing a $99.00 service request?

Call Microsoft support. In North America, they will take your credit card
but the engineer will NOT charge it when you tell him/her that you want
the fix from that KB article.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;CNTACTMS

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

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