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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Hi Alex,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">To the best of my understanding, STORAGE_REQUEST_BLOCK will not be enabled just by building a windows 8 version of driver. We need to add </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">hwInitData.SrbTypeFlags = SRB_TYPE_FLAG_STORAGE_REQUEST_BLOCK;</span><span style="color:#1f497d"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">line to our DriverEntry routine. If we omit this line (in the current 1.3 version of driver this line is omitted), driver will use SCSI_REQUEST_BLOCK.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Thanks</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Parag Sheth</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Alex Chang [mailto:<a href="mailto:Alex.Chang@pmcs.com">Alex.Chang@pmcs.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 25, 2014 5:18 PM<br><b>To:</b> Parag Sheth; <a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org">nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [nvmewin] Potential bug in OFA driver 1.3</span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Hi Parag,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">When you compile the driver for Windows 8 and up, STORAGE_REQUEST_BLOCK will be used rather than SCSI_REQUEST_BLOCK. I wonder how you can have SCSI_REQUEST_BLOCK + Windows 8 combination? And srbhelper is only compiled in for Windows 8.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Thanks,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Alex</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org">nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a> [<a href="mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org">mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Parag Sheth<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 25, 2014 5:12 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org">nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [nvmewin] Potential bug in OFA driver 1.3</span></p></div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">With the latest 1.3 driver, <span style="color:red">STORAGE</span>_REQUEST_BLOCK support has been added for windows 8 and up. Is this the only configuration allowed with Windows 8 or <span style="color:red">SCSI</span>_REQUEST_BLOCK + windows 8 combination is allowed as well? If allowed, than there are couple of bugs in the way srbhelper (from wdk) is being used. Specifically <span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white">SrbSetScsiData</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">() and <span style="background:white">SrbGetScsiData</span>() from srbhelper do not handle SCSI_REQUEST_BLOCK properly and will cause command failure.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks</p><p class="MsoNormal">Parag Sheth</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>