Can I write a PnP port driver for Win2k.

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Hopefully someone has the answers.

Is there anyway to write your own PnP Bus Driver that controls boot devices
and is not a standard MS supported bus like SCSI/1394/USB? I can write the
Bus Driver, but I have a problem with textmode installation for the driver.
MS only allows HAL drivers and SCSI miniport drivers in the txtsetup.oem
file. Is there anyway to spoof this so that I can load my PnP Bus Driver
that controls the hard disk that are needed during textmode setup? I can
think of spoofing the above problem by making my driver a SCSI miniport
driver and converting all SCSI commands to a equivalent command for my
controller. I don’t want to do this because there is not a one to one
relationship for SCSI commands to my controller. Is this the correct path
to take? If not, then what is?

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You can lie about what you are in txtsetup.oem. This will get your driver
loaded.

Mark Roddy
Windows 2000/NT Consultant
Hollis Technology Solutions
www.hollistech.com

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Hopefully someone has the answers.

Is there anyway to write your own PnP Bus Driver that controls boot devices
and is not a standard MS supported bus like SCSI/1394/USB? I can write the
Bus Driver, but I have a problem with textmode installation for the driver.
MS only allows HAL drivers and SCSI miniport drivers in the txtsetup.oem
file. Is there anyway to spoof this so that I can load my PnP Bus Driver
that controls the hard disk that are needed during textmode setup? I can
think of spoofing the above problem by making my driver a SCSI miniport
driver and converting all SCSI commands to a equivalent command for my
controller. I don’t want to do this because there is not a one to one
relationship for SCSI commands to my controller. Is this the correct path
to take? If not, then what is?

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>I can

think of spoofing the above problem by making my driver a SCSI miniport

driver and converting all SCSI commands to a equivalent command for my

controller. I don’t want to do this because there is not a one to one

relationship for SCSI commands to my controller. Is this the correct path

to take? If not, then what is?

I think you should try to implement it as a SCSI miniport only if your bus
is primarily a storage bus.

regards

Jeseem

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Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 6:56 AM

To: NT Developers Interest List

Subject: [ntdev] Can I write a PnP port driver for Win2k.

Hopefully someone has the answers.

Is there anyway to write your own PnP Bus Driver that controls boot devices

and is not a standard MS supported bus like SCSI/1394/USB? I can write the

Bus Driver, but I have a problem with textmode installation for the driver.

MS only allows HAL drivers and SCSI miniport drivers in the txtsetup.oem

file. Is there anyway to spoof this so that I can load my PnP Bus Driver

that controls the hard disk that are needed during textmode setup? I can

think of spoofing the above problem by making my driver a SCSI miniport

driver and converting all SCSI commands to a equivalent command for my

controller. I don’t want to do this because there is not a one to one

relationship for SCSI commands to my controller. Is this the correct path

to take? If not, then what is?