Hello all:
Is there any notification of formating a partition?
I tried IoRegisterPlugPlayNotification with GUID_DEVINTERFACE_VOLUME. But it
just works when there is a partition arrived or removed. So, is there any
such callback in kernel or message in user mode?
Thanks in advance.
–
Regards,
ZG [@ Sydney]
Windows Driver Developer
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Formatting is something you do to the contents of the volume. There is no
reliable means to determine when a volume is being formatted, because the
meaning of formatting varies from filesystem to filesystem. For example, if
I open the raw volume device object, and write an arbitrary pattern to every
sector, am I formatting the volume? Or simply destroying it?
Bottom line, there’s no reliable way. What are you trying to achieve? Are
you trying to prevent people from formatting a drive? If so, there are ACLs
for that already.
– arlie
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Subject: [ntdev] Notification of formating a partition
Hello all:
Is there any notification of formating a partition?
I tried IoRegisterPlugPlayNotification with GUID_DEVINTERFACE_VOLUME. But it
just works when there is a partition arrived or removed. So, is there any
such callback in kernel or message in user mode?
Thanks in advance.
–
Regards,
ZG [@ Sydney]
Windows Driver Developer
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Well, I’m working on a disk monitor driver which collects every partition’s
information. This information includes the partition’s format (such as
NTFS/FAT). Now, when a NTFS partition is formatted in FAT32, my drive cannot
know this.
No other way except reading the relative sectors periodically?
–
Regards,
ZG [@ Sydney]
Windows Driver Developer
“Arlie Davis” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> Formatting is something you do to the contents of the volume. There is no
> reliable means to determine when a volume is being formatted, because the
> meaning of formatting varies from filesystem to filesystem. For example,
> if
> I open the raw volume device object, and write an arbitrary pattern to
> every
> sector, am I formatting the volume? Or simply destroying it?
>
> Bottom line, there’s no reliable way. What are you trying to achieve?
> Are
> you trying to prevent people from formatting a drive? If so, there are
> ACLs
> for that already.
>
> – arlie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of ZG
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:45 AM
> To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
> Subject: [ntdev] Notification of formating a partition
>
> Hello all:
>
> Is there any notification of formating a partition?
>
> I tried IoRegisterPlugPlayNotification with GUID_DEVINTERFACE_VOLUME. But
> it
> just works when there is a partition arrived or removed. So, is there any
> such callback in kernel or message in user mode?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> –
>
> Regards,
> ZG [@ Sydney]
> Windows Driver Developer
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>
>
>
>
> —
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Have you tried listening for the events (as specified in
sdk\inc\IOEVENT.H). Sure’s it’s a little painful to setup the first
time (setting up a DeviceNotificationFunction and all), but you’d be
surprised at the amount of things you can get informed about
(asynchronously) about a device and/or volume.
.
-----Original Message-----
From: ZG [mailto:xxxxx@ybwork.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: Notification of formating a partition
Well, I’m working on a disk monitor driver which collects every
partition’s
information. This information includes the partition’s format (such as
NTFS/FAT). Now, when a NTFS partition is formatted in FAT32, my drive
cannot
know this.
No other way except reading the relative sectors periodically?
–
Regards,
ZG [@ Sydney]
Windows Driver Developer
“Arlie Davis” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> Formatting is something you do to the contents of the volume. There
is no
> reliable means to determine when a volume is being formatted, because
the
> meaning of formatting varies from filesystem to filesystem. For
example,
> if
> I open the raw volume device object, and write an arbitrary pattern to
> every
> sector, am I formatting the volume? Or simply destroying it?
>
> Bottom line, there’s no reliable way. What are you trying to achieve?
> Are
> you trying to prevent people from formatting a drive? If so, there
are
> ACLs
> for that already.
>
> – arlie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of ZG
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:45 AM
> To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
> Subject: [ntdev] Notification of formating a partition
>
> Hello all:
>
> Is there any notification of formating a partition?
>
> I tried IoRegisterPlugPlayNotification with GUID_DEVINTERFACE_VOLUME.
But
> it
> just works when there is a partition arrived or removed. So, is there
any
> such callback in kernel or message in user mode?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> –
>
> Regards,
> ZG [@ Sydney]
> Windows Driver Developer
> [Remove ‘stopspam’ & ‘nospam’ when you send email to me]
>
>
>
>
> —
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> Is there any notification of formating a partition?
None.
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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http://www.storagecraft.com
Collect the partition type info from user app.
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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http://www.storagecraft.com
----- Original Message -----
From: “ZG”
Newsgroups: ntdev
To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:37 AM
Subject: Re:[ntdev] Notification of formating a partition
> Well, I’m working on a disk monitor driver which collects every partition’s
> information. This information includes the partition’s format (such as
> NTFS/FAT). Now, when a NTFS partition is formatted in FAT32, my drive cannot
> know this.
>
> No other way except reading the relative sectors periodically?
>
> –
>
> Regards,
> ZG [@ Sydney]
> Windows Driver Developer
>
>
> “Arlie Davis” wrote in message
> news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> > Formatting is something you do to the contents of the volume. There is no
> > reliable means to determine when a volume is being formatted, because the
> > meaning of formatting varies from filesystem to filesystem. For example,
> > if
> > I open the raw volume device object, and write an arbitrary pattern to
> > every
> > sector, am I formatting the volume? Or simply destroying it?
> >
> > Bottom line, there’s no reliable way. What are you trying to achieve?
> > Are
> > you trying to prevent people from formatting a drive? If so, there are
> > ACLs
> > for that already.
> >
> > – arlie
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> > [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of ZG
> > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:45 AM
> > To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
> > Subject: [ntdev] Notification of formating a partition
> >
> > Hello all:
> >
> > Is there any notification of formating a partition?
> >
> > I tried IoRegisterPlugPlayNotification with GUID_DEVINTERFACE_VOLUME. But
> > it
> > just works when there is a partition arrived or removed. So, is there any
> > such callback in kernel or message in user mode?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > –
> >
> > Regards,
> > ZG [@ Sydney]
> > Windows Driver Developer
> > [Remove ‘stopspam’ & ‘nospam’ when you send email to me]
> >
> >
> >
> >
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