Testing PnP

NTFSD
1

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone would care to share tips on how your product’s filter/FS is tested on removable media.

I’m currently adding PnP/misc volume operation support and I have just been sitting around playing with a USB stick manually. I’m assuming there is probably some way to automate this that people have come up with?

Thanks,
Matt

2

Can you make sure about your terminology? USB sticks are usually ‘removable
drives’. ‘Removable media’ is usually like a flash card, the floppy media
in a normal floppy or a USB floppy drive (which may also be a removable
drive), Bernoulli, SysQuest, Zip, etc. Also, do you care if the volume
indicates it is removable?

wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone would care to share tips on how your product’s
> filter/FS is tested on removable media.
>
> I’m currently adding PnP/misc volume operation support and I have just
> been sitting around playing with a USB stick manually. I’m assuming there
> is probably some way to automate this that people have come up with?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>

3

Sorry, thanks for the correction.

Well, I need to test all of it eventually.

Let me see if I have this straight:

  1. I know if a device has removable media by looking at the FILE_REMOVABLE_MEDIA device characteristic.
  2. I know if a device is a removable drive by using IOCTL_STORAGE_GET_HOTPLUG_INFO. (This also tells me whether the media is removable if the device supports the IOCTL).

Correct?

So only a removable drive should get PnP query/surprise, etc. messages?

So I guess my question becomes: Does anyone care to share tips on testing any of this removable stuff in any kind of automated way.

Thanks,
Matt