How can I get the volume information of in win2k. Win-SDK provides functions
which will give you all the volume names. But does not give me any info
about mirroring and striping. It’s mentioned in the windows documentation
that the disk configuration information is present in windowsregistry. But I
don’t know what are the keys and is it in a special format??
Any info regarding this ?? Mainly I want to know two things
- Is there any api that gives you this information (mirroring and
striping)??
- if not How to retrieve it from registry or device itself ??
With regards,
Nagesh Bhattu
I think that the answer is that the mirroring software is derived from
(in .net,) and owned by (in w2k,) Veritas, and that the API for
retreiving this information is, as far as I know, not part of any
standard NT api or configuration database. Veritas Volume Manager (an
add on to w2k/.net that replaces the limited version available in w2k
and .net,) has an SDK that allows one to obtain this information.
Not the answer you wanted to hear, I suspect.
=====================
Mark Roddy
Windows XP/2000/NT Consultant, Microsoft MVP
Hollis Technology Solutions 603-321-1032
www.hollistech.com
xxxxx@hollistech.com
For Windows Device Driver Training: see www.azius.com
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Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 5:59 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Volume info required
How can I get the volume information of in win2k. Win-SDK
provides functions which will give you all the volume names.
But does not give me any info about mirroring and striping.
It’s mentioned in the windows documentation that the disk
configuration information is present in windowsregistry. But
I don’t know what are the keys and is it in a special
format?? Any info regarding this ?? Mainly I want to know two
things 1. Is there any api that gives you this information
(mirroring and striping)?? 2. if not How to retrieve it from
registry or device itself ?? With regards, Nagesh Bhattu
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If Veritas is the volume manager then it gives all the information. So no
problem with Veritas. The problem is with windows native volume manager
(especially dynamic disks) which does not give much information.
With regards,
Nagesh Bhattu
“Mark Roddy” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> I think that the answer is that the mirroring software is derived from
> (in .net,) and owned by (in w2k,) Veritas, and that the API for
> retreiving this information is, as far as I know, not part of any
> standard NT api or configuration database. Veritas Volume Manager (an
> add on to w2k/.net that replaces the limited version available in w2k
> and .net,) has an SDK that allows one to obtain this information.
>
> Not the answer you wanted to hear, I suspect.
>
> =====================
> Mark Roddy
Perhaps I wasn’t clear. ‘Dynamic volumes’ are managed by the proprietary
Veritas software that ships with win2k and XP. While there is in fact
some documentation about the configuration information that is kept on
the disk (see www.sysinternals.com, ) and there is a tool from Microsoft
for dumping this information, the apis for querying the (veritas) volume
manager service are not available unless you upgrade the built in
support to the full Veritas product.
See www.veritas.com for more details (and more accurate information.)
Note that with .Net server the built in support is not owned and
maintained by Microsoft, not Veritas, but as far as I know the apis
remain unavailable unless you do the upgrade with Veritas thing.
=====================
Mark Roddy
Windows XP/2000/NT Consultant, Microsoft MVP
Hollis Technology Solutions 603-321-1032
www.hollistech.com
xxxxx@hollistech.com
For Windows Device Driver Training: see www.azius.com
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Nagesh Bhattu
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 12:20 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Volume info required
If Veritas is the volume manager then it gives all the
information. So no problem with Veritas. The problem is with
windows native volume manager (especially dynamic disks)
which does not give much information.
With regards,
Nagesh Bhattu
“Mark Roddy” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> I think that the answer is that the mirroring software is derived from
> (in .net,) and owned by (in w2k,) Veritas, and that the API for
> retreiving this information is, as far as I know, not part of any
> standard NT api or configuration database. Veritas Volume Manager (an
> add on to w2k/.net that replaces the limited version available in w2k
> and .net,) has an SDK that allows one to obtain this information.
>
> Not the answer you wanted to hear, I suspect.
>
> =====================
> Mark Roddy
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I still wasn’t clear 
Note that with .Net server the built in support is not owned and
That is ‘now owned’ not ‘not owned’.
maintained by Microsoft, not Veritas, but as far as I know the apis
remain unavailable unless you do the upgrade with Veritas thing.
=====================
Mark Roddy
Windows XP/2000/NT Consultant, Microsoft MVP
Hollis Technology Solutions 603-321-1032
www.hollistech.com
xxxxx@hollistech.com
For Windows Device Driver Training: see www.azius.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Nagesh Bhattu
> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 12:20 AM
> To: NT Developers Interest List
> Subject: [ntdev] Re: Volume info required
>
>
> If Veritas is the volume manager then it gives all the
> information. So no problem with Veritas. The problem is with
> windows native volume manager (especially dynamic disks)
> which does not give much information.
>
> With regards,
> Nagesh Bhattu
> “Mark Roddy” wrote in message
> news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> >
> > I think that the answer is that the mirroring software is derived
> from
>
> > (in .net,) and owned by (in w2k,) Veritas, and that the API for
> > retreiving this information is, as far as I know, not part of any
> > standard NT api or configuration database. Veritas Volume Manager (an
> > add on to w2k/.net that replaces the limited version available in w2k
> > and .net,) has an SDK that allows one to obtain this information.
> >
> > Not the answer you wanted to hear, I suspect.
> >
> > =====================
> > Mark Roddy
>
>
>
>
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