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NTMS_DRIVEINFORMATIONA structure (ntmsapi.h)

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[Removable Storage Manager is no longer available as of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.]

The NTMS_DRIVEINFORMATION structure defines properties specific to a drive object.

Syntax

typedef struct _NTMS_DRIVEINFORMATIONA {
  DWORD      Number;
  DWORD      State;
  NTMS_GUID  DriveType;
  CHAR       szDeviceName[NTMS_DEVICENAME_LENGTH];
  CHAR       szSerialNumber[NTMS_SERIALNUMBER_LENGTH];
  CHAR       szRevision[NTMS_REVISION_LENGTH];
  WORD       ScsiPort;
  WORD       ScsiBus;
  WORD       ScsiTarget;
  WORD       ScsiLun;
  DWORD      dwMountCount;
  SYSTEMTIME LastCleanedTs;
  NTMS_GUID  SavedPartitionId;
  NTMS_GUID  Library;
  GUID       Reserved;
  DWORD      dwDeferDismountDelay;
} NTMS_DRIVEINFORMATIONA;

Members

Number

Number of the drive in the library. This is set zero or one relative the value based on the drive numbering system of the device. Some changers number drives beginning with zero, and some changers begin with one.

State

State of the drive. This can be one of the following values.

Value Meaning
NTMS_DRIVESTATE_BEING_CLEANED
 The drive is being cleaned and is unavailable.
NTMS_DRIVESTATE_DISMOUNTABLE
 If a library is set for lazy dismounts, the medium might be left in the library's drive on a dismount. RSM can satisfy mount requests for loaded and dismounted drives.
NTMS_DRIVESTATE_DISMOUNTED
 No medium in the drive.
NTMS_DRIVESTATE_LOADED
 The medium is mounted in the drive and is loaded for read and write access.
NTMS_DRIVESTATE_MOUNTED
 The medium is mounted in the drive but is not ready for read and write access. This is a temporary state that is used while a drive is waiting for spindle synchronization or loading tape media into the head mechanism.
NTMS_DRIVESTATE_UNLOADED
 The medium has been dismounted by the drive and is ready to be opened. This state indicates that the spindle has stopped or a tape media has been returned to the tape cartridge.

DriveType

Unique identifier of the drive type object containing the attributes for the drive.

szDeviceName[NTMS_DEVICENAME_LENGTH]

Name of the device used to access the drive. For a tape drive this contains the device name \.\tape0 or \.\tape1. Other devices provide the name of a SCSI disk drive or the root of a file system that currently has the device mounted (raw, NTFS, FAT and so forth).

szSerialNumber[NTMS_SERIALNUMBER_LENGTH]

Serial number for the drive represented as a string. Devices that do not support serial numbers report NULL for this member.

szRevision[NTMS_REVISION_LENGTH]

Revision for the drive represented as a string.

ScsiPort

SCSI host adapter to which the drive is connected.

ScsiBus

SCSI bus to which the drive is connected.

ScsiTarget

SCSI target ID for the drive.

ScsiLun

SCSI logical unit ID for the drive.

dwMountCount

Number of times the drive has had a medium mounted to it. If the drive supports the reporting of a unique serial number, this value is the number of times the drive has been mounted since it was installed. If the drive does not support the reporting of serial numbers, this member reflects the number of mounts to all of the drives at that location.

LastCleanedTs

Last time the drive was cleaned.

SavedPartitionId

Partition identifier of the medium that is in the drive. If this value is NULL and the drive is found to be full, the media was loaded by a user and needs to be classified.

Library

Unique identifier of the library that contains the drive.

Reserved

Reserved.

dwDeferDismountDelay

Minimum number of seconds a medium will remain in a drive of a library after a deferred dismount has been performed. The default is 5 minutes. This member does not apply to stand-alone libraries. This member is writable.

Remarks

The NTMS_DRIVEINFORMATION structure is included in the NTMS_OBJECTINFORMATION structure.

Note

The ntmsapi.h header defines NTMS_DRIVEINFORMATION as an alias which automatically selects the ANSI or Unicode version of this function based on the definition of the UNICODE preprocessor constant. Mixing usage of the encoding-neutral alias with code that not encoding-neutral can lead to mismatches that result in compilation or runtime errors. For more information, see Conventions for Function Prototypes.

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows XP [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server Windows Server 2003 [desktop apps only]
Header ntmsapi.h

See also

NTMS_OBJECTINFORMATION