Dear All,
We have a new storage devices and thinking how can we use it on Windows.
As far as we know, for Win98/ME - we need writing a port driver.
However for NT/Win2K/XP - we have very limited knowledge and just think
maybe FSD is the way to go.
Below is information we got so far…
- We should buy IFSKit from Microsoft.
- The book “Windows NT File System Internals : A Developer’s
Guide–[Paperback] Nagar…”
Please comments if there is a better approach or resource can help …
(OSR tools is also one of our consideration … but the price is kind of
high at this point )
By the way, how about Whilseter any IFSKit avaialble yet ?
Thank in advance on any comments or suggestion.
Lees.
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The real question is what are you trying to do? If you
can work with a port driver for Win98/ME then you
should be able to do the same for Win2k.
On file systems I would not take one on if you can
avoid it, these are multi man year efforts to get one
of production level quality. There is a beta IFS kit
for WinXP available.
The OSR toolkit is worth the cost for several reasons:
-
It can reduce your development time by
man-years.
-
It has good documentation, something that the
IFS kit is still working to get.
-
It hides the changes from version to version, so
there is little work to go from NT4 to Win2k to XP.
But again say why you think you need a file system, these
are not something to do unless you really need one.
Don Burn
Windows 2000 Device Driver and Filesystem consulting
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From: “Shyh-Shin Lee(TP)”
To: “File Systems Developers”
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 7:29 AM
Subject: [ntfsd] IFSKit
> Dear All,
>
> We have a new storage devices and thinking how can we use it on Windows.
>
> As far as we know, for Win98/ME - we need writing a port driver.
>
> However for NT/Win2K/XP - we have very limited knowledge and just think
> maybe FSD is the way to go.
>
> Below is information we got so far…
> 1. We should buy IFSKit from Microsoft.
> 2. The book “Windows NT File System Internals : A Developer’s
> Guide–[Paperback] Nagar…”
>
> Please comments if there is a better approach or resource can help …
> (OSR tools is also one of our consideration … but the price is kind of
> high at this point )
>
> By the way, how about Whilseter any IFSKit avaialble yet ?
>
> Thank in advance on any comments or suggestion.
>
> Lees.
>
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Hello Shyh-Shin,
SSLT> We have a new storage devices and thinking how can we use it on Windows.
SSLT> As far as we know, for Win98/ME - we need writing a port driver.
You need the same type of driver to process I/O requests (read/write
of sectors and IOCTLS). After that you can use the standart file
systems.
You can find the samples in NT DDK - in storage folders. Also
some good things are in NuMega’s DriverStudio.
Best regards,
Andrew mailto:xxxxx@perm.raid.ru
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Friday, July 13, 2001, 4:29:11 AM, you wrote:
SSLT> Dear All,
SSLT> We have a new storage devices and thinking how can we use it on Windows.
SSLT> As far as we know, for Win98/ME - we need writing a port driver.
SSLT> However for NT/Win2K/XP - we have very limited knowledge and just think
SSLT> maybe FSD is the way to go.
SSLT> Below is information we got so far…
SSLT> 1. We should buy IFSKit from Microsoft.
SSLT> 2. The book “Windows NT File System Internals : A Developer’s
SSLT> Guide–[Paperback] Nagar…”
SSLT> Please comments if there is a better approach or resource can help …
SSLT> (OSR tools is also one of our consideration … but the price is kind of
SSLT> high at this point )
SSLT> By the way, how about Whilseter any IFSKit avaialble yet ?
SSLT> Thank in advance on any comments or suggestion.
SSLT> Lees.
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Hi,
Not so. Nobady stops you to write file system that will talk directly to
your for example USB memory card. I do not think it’s a good idea but it
can be done.
Regards,
Anton Kolomyeytsev
CoolDev.Com - Toolkits for Network & Storage Kernel Software Developers
“KoolSockets” & “KoolStorage” - TDI Client, Kernel Sockets, SCSI
port/miniport
http://www.CoolDev.Com xxxxx@CoolDev.Com
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On 07/13/01, “Andrew ” wrote:
> Hello Shyh-Shin,
>
> SSLT> We have a new storage devices and thinking how can we use it on Windows.
> SSLT> As far as we know, for Win98/ME - we need writing a port driver.
> You need the same type of driver to process I/O requests (read/write
> of sectors and IOCTLS). After that you can use the standart file
> systems.
> You can find the samples in NT DDK - in storage folders. Also
> some good things are in NuMega’s DriverStudio.
> –
> Best regards,
> Andrew mailto:xxxxx@perm.raid.ru
>
>
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Hi,
This can be done. I mean writing file system that will talk directly to
your storage device. But you’d better develop SCSI miniport or SCSI port
driver that will be sitting between your file system driver and storage
device. So you’ll be able to use ANY file system that operationg system
supports. This can even eliminate the need of developing your own FSD.
Regards,
Anton Kolomyeytsev
CoolDev.Com - Toolkits for Network & Storage Kernel Software Developers
“KoolSockets” & “KoolStorage” - TDI Client, Kernel Sockets, SCSI
port/miniport
http://www.CoolDev.Com xxxxx@CoolDev.Com
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On 07/13/01, ““Shyh-Shin Lee(TP)” ” wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> We have a new storage devices and thinking how can we use it on Windows.
>
> As far as we know, for Win98/ME - we need writing a port driver.
>
> However for NT/Win2K/XP - we have very limited knowledge and just think
> maybe FSD is the way to go.
>
> Below is information we got so far…
> 1. We should buy IFSKit from Microsoft.
> 2. The book “Windows NT File System Internals : A Developer’s
> Guide–[Paperback] Nagar…”
>
> Please comments if there is a better approach or resource can help …
> (OSR tools is also one of our consideration … but the price is kind of
> high at this point )
>
> By the way, how about Whilseter any IFSKit avaialble yet ?
>
> Thank in advance on any comments or suggestion.
>
> Lees.
>
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