Using WLK for testing storage devices, and other thoughts on storage testing.

Disk IO test fails on disks with free space more than 2 tera bytes

The Disk IO test fails on the disks with free space more than 2 tera bytes. It fails with an error...

Author: bhanug Date: 07/11/2008

Optical Drive Tray status Implementation

The WLK 1.2 version of the Optical Logo test verifies if the drive reports the following sense codes...

Author: bhanug Date: 07/07/2008

Optical Logo Test – Drive Serial Number test case

The WLK 1.2 version of the optical logo test would need at least two identical test drives to...

Author: bhanug Date: 07/07/2008

RAID adapter design recommendations

If you are not aware, there is Whitepaper available at WHDC, that describes how to design RAID...

Author: bhanug Date: 07/01/2008

The SATA specification does not support data transfers of odd number of bytes. The 10.3.11 section...

Author: bhanug Date: 04/10/2008

Optical logo test - Write Speed Measurement

The following description might help you understand the test logic being used in the optical logo...

Author: bhanug Date: 04/08/2008

Storage Query Property test

The storage query property test validates if the storage miniport driver is reporting the correct...

Author: bhanug Date: 04/07/2008

MPIO test – WLK 1.1

The MPIO test documentation has incorrect information in the software requirements section. Here is...

Author: bhanug Date: 03/07/2008

Storage submission wizard page - WLK 1.1

The storage submission wizard page in WLK 1.1 doesn’t display device bus type combo box properly....

Author: bhanug Date: 03/07/2008

iSCSI Error Codes and descriptions from iSCSIErr.h

0xEFFF0001L : ISDSC_NON_SPECIFIC_ERROR A non specific error occurred. 0xEFFF0002L :...

Author: ericstj Date: 11/15/2007

Understanding the Crashdump Test and debugging failures

The crashdump test is part of all of the Storage > Adapter or Controller program and verifies...

Author: ericstj Date: 10/09/2007

Storage Query Property Test

Storage Query Property Test Type: Automated Test Overview The Storage Query Property test verifies a...

Author: ericstj Date: 05/08/2007

Disk Verification Test

Disk Verification Test Type: Automated Test Overview The Disk Verification test verifies a disk by...

Author: ericstj Date: 05/08/2007

Disk Stress Test

Disk Stress Test Type: Automated Test Overview The Disk Stress test stresses disks on a computer by...

Author: ericstj Date: 05/08/2007

Boot Test

Boot Test Type: Automated Test Overview The Boot test will determine if the test client is booting...

Author: ericstj Date: 05/08/2007

Documentation for Preview tests released in DTM 1.0a

In the DTM 1.0a release we replaced SDStress with Disk Stress, Data Verification with Disk...

Author: ericstj Date: 05/08/2007

Updated version of SCSI Compliance test (1.3.6 H was 1.3.6 G was 1.3.6 F)

An updated version of the SCSI Compliance Test has been posted on https://connect.microsoft.com. You...

Author: ericstj Date: 12/04/2006

Can DVD readers report DVD+R, DVD+RW as supported profiles?

Our interpretation is that the drive should not report a profile if it cannot recognize the blank...

Author: bhanug Date: 12/01/2006

Testing Serial ATA Hard Disk Drives and Serial ATA Optical Drives in DTM

A few issues have come up lately when testing Serial ATA devices and I wanted to share the problems...

Author: ericstj Date: 11/27/2006

Storage Presentation Video

Video: Storage Logo Testing

Author: ericstj Date: 11/13/2006

Storage Presentation Slides

Here are the slides from a talk I gave at the DTM Plugfest in Taipei, Taiwan. They provide a good...

Author: ericstj Date: 11/02/2006

Diagnosing failures in DTM

So you've run all the tests in DTM and tried to create a submission package, but you find that you...

Author: ericstj Date: 10/05/2006

First Post!

After many months of tough developing and testing, we've done it! With the release of Vista RC1 came...

Author: ericstj Date: 09/22/2006