private IOCTL to SCSI miniport.

NTDEV
1

Hi gurus,

How to send a private IOCTLs to My-scsi-miniport driver when no drive is
present. This is for our Management software that creates/deletes arrays. At
one point there won’t be any arrays created at all. In this case how get the
reference to call DeviceIoControl(…).

Thanks,
Shakeel.

2

See the documentation about IOCTL_SCSI_MINIPORT.

-----Original Message-----
From: shakeel [mailto:xxxxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 19:07
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] private IOCTL to SCSI miniport.

Hi gurus,

How to send a private IOCTLs to My-scsi-miniport driver when no drive is
present. This is for our Management software that creates/deletes arrays. At
one point there won’t be any arrays created at all. In this case how get the
reference to call DeviceIoControl(…).

Thanks,
Shakeel.

Questions? First check the Kernel Driver FAQ at http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=256

You are currently subscribed to ntdev as: xxxxx@store-age.com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to xxxxx@lists.osr.com

*** IMPORTANT: Do not open attachments from unrecognized senders ***

******************************************************************************************
The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential.
It is intended for the named recipient(s) only.
If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the
sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any one or make copies.

******************************************************************************************

************************************************************************************
This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by
PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses.
************************************************************************************

3

This is a limitation with scsiport before Server 2003. With Server 2003,
you can set the CreateInitiatorLU registry value
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/storag
e/hh/storage/02mnport_8tgn.asp)

For previous versions of the OS, you would typically need to create a
fake LU for control operations (please don’t report it as a disk, use
Array Controller and don’t keep handles open to it).

-----Original Message-----
From: shakeel [mailto:xxxxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:07 AM
Subject: private IOCTL to SCSI miniport.

Hi gurus,

How to send a private IOCTLs to My-scsi-miniport driver when no drive is
present. This is for our Management software that creates/deletes
arrays. At
one point there won’t be any arrays created at all. In this case how get
the
reference to call DeviceIoControl(…).

Thanks,
Shakeel.