From: Mark Roddy [markr@hollistech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 7:33 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: Can I write a PnP port driver for Win2k.

You can lie about what you are in txtsetup.oem. This will get your driver
loaded.


Mark Roddy
Windows 2000/NT Consultant
Hollis Technology Solutions
www.hollistech.com

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[mailto:bounce-ntdev-311@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of
joe.moriarty@east.sun.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 6:56 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Can I write a PnP port driver for Win2k.


Hopefully someone has the answers.

Is there anyway to write your own PnP Bus Driver that controls boot devices
and is not a standard MS supported bus like SCSI/1394/USB?  I can write the
Bus Driver, but I have a problem with textmode installation for the driver.
 MS only allows HAL drivers and SCSI miniport drivers in the txtsetup.oem
file.  Is there anyway to spoof this so that I can load my PnP Bus Driver
that controls the hard disk that are needed during textmode setup?  I can
think of spoofing the above problem by making my driver a SCSI miniport
driver and converting all SCSI commands to a equivalent command for my
controller.  I don't want to do this because there is not a one to one
relationship for SCSI commands to my controller.  Is this the correct path
to take?  If not, then what is?


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