How to develop

NTFSD
1

Hello,

I am going to develop certain driver and it is expected to work on latter
than NT4 and Win9x both. So I would like to do that with WDM, but it is
problem on NT4 because NT4 does not support that.

Could you please give me advice or pointer how to develop 9x and NT driver
including NT4?

Thank you,
Hideyuki Inamasu.

2

Notice that Windows 95 doesn’t supports WDM drivers.

If you are planning to develop file-system-driver (or filter one) which
operates over both platforms, it will going to be a very difficult job.
Windows 9/ME file-system drivers are legacy from 95 OS, which means that
they have interfaces for the IFSMgr. It’s not possible for WDM driver to
send/receives messages from VxD driver.

My best suggestion for you is to develop 2 drivers (VxD and SYS) which have
a common software layer.

Elad.

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Subject: [ntfsd] How to develop

Hello,

I am going to develop certain driver and it is expected to work on latter
than NT4 and Win9x both. So I would like to do that with WDM, but it is
problem on NT4 because NT4 does not support that.

Could you please give me advice or pointer how to develop 9x and NT driver
including NT4?

Thank you,
Hideyuki Inamasu.

Questions? First check the IFS FAQ at
https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=17

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3

Either drop NT4 support or Win9x support :slight_smile: all is easy :slight_smile:

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:00 PM
Subject: [ntfsd] How to develop

> Hello,
>
> I am going to develop certain driver and it is expected to work on latter
> than NT4 and Win9x both. So I would like to do that with WDM, but it is
> problem on NT4 because NT4 does not support that.
>
> Could you please give me advice or pointer how to develop 9x and NT driver
> including NT4?
>
> Thank you,
> Hideyuki Inamasu.
>
>
> —
> Questions? First check the IFS FAQ at
https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=17
>
> You are currently subscribed to ntfsd as: xxxxx@storagecraft.com
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What driver do you want to develop?

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Regards,
ZG [@ Sydney]
Windows Driver Developer/Service
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“Hideyuki Inamasu” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
> Hello,
>
> I am going to develop certain driver and it is expected to work on latter
> than NT4 and Win9x both. So I would like to do that with WDM, but it is
> problem on NT4 because NT4 does not support that.
>
> Could you please give me advice or pointer how to develop 9x and NT driver
> including NT4?
>
> Thank you,
> Hideyuki Inamasu.
>