About Storage Miniport Drivers

A vendor-supplied storage miniport driver works together with a system-supplied storage port driver to support a vendor's storage device on Windows.

The following table lists the types of storage miniport drivers and their associated system-supplied port driver support library.

Note

Vendors are encouraged to implement Storport miniport drivers and use the Storport port driver where possible.

Miniport Driver	Port Driver
Storport Miniport Drivers	Storport Driver (Storport.sys), available in Windows Server 2003 and later versions of the operating system (recommended)
SCSI Miniport Drivers	SCSI Port Driver (Scsiport.sys)
ATA Miniport Drivers	ATA Port Driver (Ataport.sys), available in Windows Vista and later versions of the operating system
IDE Controller Minidrivers	See IDE Port Driver