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Regarding paged code
Posted on January 29th, 2007 | 7 Comments

Load the proper symbols for your driver to WinDbg, to know what is "mydriver.sys+a505". -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft...

USB IRP sometimes hangs with hyper-threading enabled
Posted on January 29th, 2007 | 2 Comments

"Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message news:exGJrtYQHHA.3412@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... Sorry, I should have said, this is under Windows XP SP2. Cheers, John

ENUM\USB\xxx entry missing
Posted on January 29th, 2007 | 2 Comments

The "blahblahblah" is the device instance ID and should not be removed unless the device is being de-installed. If the USB device has a serial number, then the "blahblahblah" will be that serial...

ACPIView on vista
Posted on January 29th, 2007 | 0 Comments

I tried to run the ACPIView tool on vista (RTM). It throwed an error message saying "unable to load driver". What driver is it trying to load? Is it acpiec.sys? or its some other driver? Is there a...

Intel ICH8 chipset doesn't response a DMA ack....(Vista)
Posted on January 29th, 2007 | 0 Comments

Folks: I was porting my FIR driver to Vista. My FIR driver work fine on my SIS EV board (both XP and Vista). My Custom used INTEL ICH8 chipset (for mobile). XP worked fine but Vista didn't work....

How to get Information like Device Manager.
Posted on January 29th, 2007 | 5 Comments

Hi Fchen. I could not open file for USBHUB by CreateFile() what is the device name? When I'll try to DeviceIoControl(h, IOCTL_WD_USB_SCAN_DEVICES, ..) TMOK.

Power Management in a Miniport Driver with a WDM Lower Interface
Posted on January 28th, 2007 | 5 Comments

"Vetzak" <ptrshrn@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1169800902.780299.107890@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com... Good for you then... Our drivers also work not so bad, and are certified, but I wish I...

16BPP
Posted on January 27th, 2007 | 1 Comments

XLATEOBJ_cGetPalette (XO_SRCBITFIELDS) should give you the bit-masks for the color components. -- -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of any included...

ML7.X vs ML8.X
Posted on January 27th, 2007 | 0 Comments

there seems to be a difference in symbol visibility (public/private) between ML8.X & previous versions in ML versions prior to 8.X the directive OPTION PROC:PRIVATE would cause all procedures not...

NdisMAllocateNetBufferSGList keeps failing.
Posted on January 27th, 2007 | 1 Comments

How big is the data and how many fragments is it? How many outstanding xmits do you have at the point of failure? Is this 32 bit or 64 bit Vista? How much memory the system has? When you called...

NdisMAllocateNetBufferSGList keeps failing.
Posted on January 27th, 2007 | 0 Comments

Hi, When I do large ftp xfers, I receive a huge request from NDIS (which it received from app). NdisMallocateNetBufferSGList consistently fails and the ftp connection ends up getting...

Communication of a driver and an application.
Posted on January 26th, 2007 | 2 Comments

In user mode: - CreateFile with FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED - DeviceIoControl with no input but with output - wait for it to complete (3 ways of doing this in Win32), then get your message in the output...

Vista x64 Device Driver DTM Test Issue
Posted on January 26th, 2007 | 3 Comments

Not so. The drivers can be signed by any corporate certificate issued by Verisign or... list of trusted cross-certificate providers follow. WHQL has nothing to do this this. -- Maxim Shatskih,...

Limit IRP I/O request size
Posted on January 26th, 2007 | 6 Comments

0x56 = 86, open Notepad, press Alt-8-6, see 'V' appeared. Then grep the DDK headers for 'V' to see: #define IOCTL_VOLUME_BASE ((ULONG) 'V') in ntddvol.h 0xE is ( 3 << 2 ) | 2, so, we must have:

Vista USB Pnp driver model
Posted on January 26th, 2007 | 2 Comments

look at the KMDF examples, usbsamp and osrusbfx2. both of them are very good starting points for your development d -- Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. this alias is for newsgroup...

help to handle IRP_MN_STOP_DEVICE and IRP_MN_START_DEVICE in Usb device?
Posted on January 26th, 2007 | 14 Comments

for all types of modem drivers d -- Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. this alias is for newsgroup purposes only. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no...

Setting metric for an NIC
Posted on January 26th, 2007 | 0 Comments

Hi Experts: On my Windows XP, I tried to the metric for one of the network cards through the TCP/IP settings, say set it to 10, it seems took effect as shown by the output of "route print"; but...

Has anyone seen this crash before?
Posted on January 26th, 2007 | 4 Comments

Enabling driver verifier helped. It tells me the posisble reason why the crash was happening. THanks, "Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in...

blue screen when using ::KsMethod in avstream driver
Posted on January 26th, 2007 | 1 Comments

problem solved! On Jan 25, 1:55 pm, "wpiyong" <ly.did...@gmail.com> wrote:

WORKER_THREAD_RETURNED _AT_BAD_IRQL in TDI.sys
Posted on January 26th, 2007 | 4 Comments

I repeat my previous questions: 1. have you enabled the verifier on the crashing machine? 2. have you used prefast while compiling the driver? It usually catches errors like un-released...