The Disk IO test fails on the disks with free space more than 2 tera bytes. It fails with an error code 0x06 and error message “The handle is invalid”. The only workaround for this problem is to reduce the disk space to less than 2TB. This test issue...

The WLK 1.2 version of the Optical Logo test verifies if the drive reports the following sense codes properly DESCRIPTION SENSE KEY ASC ASCQ MEDIUM NOT PRESENT 0x02 0x3A 0x00 MEDIUM...

The WLK 1.2 version of the optical logo test would need at least two identical test drives to validate if the drive reports unique serial number. If the test drive is a Read only drive then it would need two identical test drives and one writable drive...

If you are not aware, there is Whitepaper available at WHDC, that describes how to design RAID Adapters and drivers to work well with Windows and meet the Windows Logo requirements. The White Paper can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...

The SATA specification does not support data transfers of odd number of bytes. The 10.3.11 section in the SATA specification 2.6 discuss about this issue. But the optical logo test in the WLK 1.2 did not considered this in validating the test cases. So...

The following description might help you understand the test logic being used in the optical logo test to validate the drive write speed. The test queries the device and gets the supported write speeds for the test media. Then it will try to validate...

The storage query property test validates if the storage miniport driver is reporting the correct bus type and the storage controller is reporting the correct PCI class code. The test sends the IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY with STORAGE_PROPERTY_ID...

The MPIO test documentation has incorrect information in the software requirements section. Here is what the documentation says: Software Requirements: 1. Windows Server 2008 2. Software components included with the device that is being...

The storage submission wizard page in WLK 1.1 doesn’t display device bus type combo box properly. The combo box is clipped and it will appear as an edit box. The users will notice this bug for disk drive, removable storage device and medium changer submissions...

The crashdump test is part of all of the Storage > Adapter or Controller program and verifies that the storage adapter driver is able to produce a crashdump. The purpose of a crashdump file is to analyze the state of the system in the event of a non...

In the DTM 1.0a release we replaced SDStress with Disk Stress, Data Verification with Disk Verification, and ExtInt13 with Boot Test. We also added the Query Property test to the Storage Adapter program. The help documents for these tests did not make...

An updated version of the SCSI Compliance Test has been posted on https://connect.microsoft.com . You must be a member of the Storage Logo Program Beta Users program to download. You can join this program by finding it in the Available Connections section...

Our interpretation is that the drive should not report a profile if it cannot recognize the blank media for that type. If the DVD reader is a capable of reading from the recorded DVD+R, DVD+RW media then it can report DVD+R feature and DVD+RW feature...

A few issues have come up lately when testing Serial ATA devices and I wanted to share the problems testers are hitting. SATA-IO Sig Test is failing. Solution : Download and install the latest errata filters from http://winqual.microsoft.com...

Video: Storage Logo Testing

Here are the slides from a talk I gave at the DTM Plugfest in Taipei, Taiwan. They provide a good overview of how to run the tests, common testing issues, and changes since the HCT.

So you've run all the tests in DTM and tried to create a submission package, but you find that you are failing tests. Don't panic: DTM was built with testing in mind and will give you all the information you need to fix the problem fast. The first...

After many months of tough developing and testing, we've done it! With the release of Vista RC1 came the first official release of the WDK. We've done our best to ensure that logoing a storage device is a pleasant, painless experience, but we know we...