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SMBus ARP
Posted on February 4th, 2008 | 5 Comments

Thanks guys. Looks like we might end up being the SMBus experts by the time we finish this project :-). If we do learn more through other sources, we will post them here. "Maxim S. Shatskih" wrote:

Driver installation warning, driver signing and WHQL
Posted on February 4th, 2008 | 3 Comments

"Paul Schwann" <paul.schwann@gmail.com> wrote in message news:049894bf-2e68-44a0-97be-bdc90d531d59@m34g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... This is a rather sad statement about the whole WHQL process,...

1394 debug with two host controller
Posted on February 4th, 2008 | 3 Comments

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:07:14 -0800, =?Utf-8?B?UmFq?= <Raj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: For me, using 2 host controllers in the target works under Vista 32. As far as I remember one controller...

32bit OS cannot see 4GB of RAM on modern chipset
Posted on February 4th, 2008 | 22 Comments

Impossible. XP 32 and Vista 32 has a politicail limitation by MS to not support 64bit physical addresses. Use Server 2003 (at least Std sees all memory, dunno on Web) or any...

Bulkusb.sys performance
Posted on February 2nd, 2008 | 12 Comments

xxx <anshul.solanki@gmail.com> wrote: What you send to bulkusb.sys is not so important. What is important is what bulkusb.sys sends to the host controller. Remember that USB is a "scheduled" bus:...

WDF : GetOverlappedResult failed...
Posted on February 2nd, 2008 | 14 Comments

"min" <min@amo.de> wrote: Umm, yes. ExAllocatePool does not zero the memory it returns to you. You will get whatever happened to be left in that memory by the previous user. If you want the memory...

Bulk transfer with UVC driver
Posted on February 2nd, 2008 | 1 Comments

Btw, this is the windbg trace of the bug. As the function failing is USBPORT_InitializeIsoTransfer, I assume there's no bulk support. Is this right? Thanks, AT kd> !analyze...

Driver to work around WriteFile access denied issue in Vista
Posted on February 2nd, 2008 | 3 Comments

But before doing that check out Davids suggestion. Also realize that with Vista some parts of the disk are accessible in the SYSTEM account but not the Administrator account unlike previous systems...

PtSendComplete Adapter=NULL
Posted on February 2nd, 2008 | 1 Comments

On Feb 1, 4:23*pm, ttan <t...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: It looks like somewhere in your recycle process you might just be throwing away the memory that contains the Adapter pointer....

Tracing using the WPP
Posted on February 1st, 2008 | 1 Comments

The impact is extremely low until you turn on tracing. Once you turn it on it is dependant on the number of trace statements executed and the amount of information a statement handles. One thing...

COM ports disappear with install / remove cycle
Posted on February 1st, 2008 | 5 Comments

On Jan 31, 1:36 pm, jan <j...@nospam.nospam> wrote: This happens from time to time if you get a hosed device installation/ uninstallation, even if you are uninstalling properly (through DIF_REMOVE...

ERR:INF file you selected does not support this method of inst
Posted on February 1st, 2008 | 1 Comments

"Carlo" <Carlo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:CD42940D-1C90-4A19-A310-3848B6CA75CC@microsoft.com... Exactly same advice, again. Also, please ask questions in...

PrinterDriver UI and MFC
Posted on February 1st, 2008 | 2 Comments

Hi Tim, thanks a lot for your help on this issue. Just solved it. Best regards, Lela "Tim Roberts" <timr@probo.com> wrote in message news:c2p2q3dpkd0k6ije7n9gu7t7bcabj3gbnu@4ax.com...

pfnCreateContextCb
Posted on February 1st, 2008 | 5 Comments

hi Ivan.. I try to set debugpoint in d3d9.dll. What I tried was, I diassemble the d3d9.dll and through diassembling take out the offset of createcontext function. Than through listdll I looked for...

Regarding DTM set up for LAN.
Posted on February 1st, 2008 | 1 Comments

Ask these questions in microsoft.public.development.device.drivers.dtm. I think the Server and Controller must be Server 2003. "RK" <RK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in...

How to get the device instance id of a disk or volume?
Posted on February 1st, 2008 | 4 Comments

It is actually hardcoded by some name in the headers. -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation maxim@storagecraft.com http://www.storagecraft.com

DiskId32 has trouble reading some SATA drives
Posted on January 31st, 2008 | 15 Comments

Actually, my DiskId32 tool works for all PATA hard drives and most SATA drives in Windows Server 2003 and Vista with only user rights mode. It is only failing on some Western Digital SATA hard...

ndis------Leaking the resource
Posted on January 31st, 2008 | 2 Comments

On Jan 31, 10:46 am, Mark Roddy <ma...@hollistech.com> wrote: Indeed, that's a pretty good catch. I mostly got tired of inserting #pragmas to stop it from complaining about the WDF header...

How to get the device instance id of a disk or volume?
Posted on January 31st, 2008 | 0 Comments

I am developing a software where I store the Instance ID of every disk in the system. How can I get the Instance ID from a disk number? e.g I want Instance ID of DIsk0 DIsk1 etc.? here is what I am...

Creating a Silent Install for VPN
Posted on January 31st, 2008 | 0 Comments

I'm trying to create a silent install for my works VPN program and am having trouble creating or recording the answer file. I've read a few walktroughs on silent installations and have been trying...