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...
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...
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...
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...
Date: 07/01/2008
Optical Logo Test failures related to SATA bus data transfer size requirement
The SATA specification does not support data transfers of odd number of bytes. The 10.3.11 section...
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...
Date: 04/08/2008
Storage Query Property test
The storage query property test validates if the storage miniport driver is reporting the correct...
Date: 04/07/2008
MPIO test – WLK 1.1
The MPIO test documentation has incorrect information in the software requirements section. Here is...
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....
Date: 03/07/2008
iSCSI Error Codes and descriptions from iSCSIErr.h
0xEFFF0001L : ISDSC_NON_SPECIFIC_ERROR A non specific error occurred. 0xEFFF0002L :...
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...
Date: 10/09/2007
Storage Query Property Test
Storage Query Property Test Type: Automated Test Overview The Storage Query Property test verifies a...
Date: 05/08/2007
Disk Verification Test
Disk Verification Test Type: Automated Test Overview The Disk Verification test verifies a disk by...
Date: 05/08/2007
Disk Stress Test
Disk Stress Test Type: Automated Test Overview The Disk Stress test stresses disks on a computer by...
Date: 05/08/2007
Boot Test
Boot Test Type: Automated Test Overview The Boot test will determine if the test client is booting...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Date: 11/27/2006
Storage Presentation Video
Video: Storage Logo Testing
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...
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...
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...
Date: 09/22/2006