IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_EX IOCTL (ntddscsi.h)
The IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_EX control code request is the extended version of the IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH request. This request provides support for bidirectional data transfers and allows a command data block (CDB) > 16 bytes.
Allows an application to send almost any SCSI command to a target device, with the following restrictions:
- Multitarget commands, such as COPY, are not allowed.
- If a class driver for the target type of device exists, the request must be sent to that class driver. Thus, an application can send this request directly to the system port driver for a target logical unit (LU) only if there is no class driver for the type of device that is connected to that LU. The system port driver does not check to determine if a device has been claimed by a class driver before it processes a pass-through request. Therefore, if an application bypasses a class driver that has claimed a device and sends a pass-through request for that device directly to the port driver, a conflict for control of the device can occur between the class driver and the application. If a pass-through request is sent to an adapter device object and if it originates from user mode and targets an LU that is claimed by a class driver, Storport fails the request with STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST. If the request is sent to an LU device object, originates in kernel mode, or targets an unclaimed LU, it is passed to the miniport driver.
- This request cannot be used if the CDB might require the underlying miniport driver to access memory directly. If the caller's CDB might require direct access to memory, use IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT_EX instead.
- Applications must not attempt to send a pass-through request asynchronously. All pass-through requests must be synchronous.
- Applications do not require administrative privileges to send a pass-through request to a device, but they must have read/write access to the device.
IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_EX is a buffered device control request. To bypass buffering in system memory, callers should use IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT_EX. When handling an IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT_EX request, the system locks down the buffer in user memory and the device accesses this memory directly.
This request is typically used for transferring small amounts of data (<16K).
Applications can send this request by means of an IRP_MJ_DEVICE_CONTROL request.
Storage class drivers set the minor IRP number to IRP_MN_SCSI_CLASS to indicate that the request has been processed by a storage class driver.
Major code
Input buffer
This structure includes a SCSI CDB, which must be initialized by the caller except for the path, target ID, and logical unit number (LUN), which are filled in by the port driver. For a data-out command, the data to be transferred is included in the buffer at Irp->AssociatedIrp.SystemBuffer at DataInBufferOffset in the SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_EX structure. However, the caller must allocate additional storage, immediately following SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_EX, if the caller asks for request-sense data.
Input buffer length
Parameters.DeviceIoControl.InputBufferLength indicates the size, in bytes, of the buffer at Irp->AssociatedIrp.SystemBuffer, which must be at least (sense data size + sizeof(SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_EX)). The size of the SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_EX structure varies, depending on the value specified in DataInTransferLength .Output buffer
The port driver returns any request-sense data and any data transferred from the device to the buffer at Irp->AssociatedIrp.SystemBuffer. The SenseInfoLength and DataOutTransferLength in the SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_EX structure are updated to indicate the amount of data transferred.
Output buffer length
The SenseInfoLength and DataOutTransferLength in the SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_EX structure are updated to indicate the amount of data transferred.
Status block
The Information field is set to the number of bytes returned in the output buffer at Irp->AssociatedIrp.SystemBuffer. The Status field is set to STATUS_SUCCESS, or possibly to STATUS_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL or STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER if the input Length value in SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_EX is improperly set.
Remarks
In order to issue an IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_EX request, the underlying storage device must support extended SRBs. This means that the supported SRB type is SRB_TYPE_STORAGE_REQUEST_BLOCK. An application can query for SRB support with the IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY request with a query type of PropertyStandardQuery and a property type of StorageDeviceProperty. The SrbType member returned in the STORAGE_ADAPTER_DESCRIPTIOR structure will indicate either SRB_TYPE_SCSI_REQUEST_BLOCK or SRB_TYPE_STORAGE_REQUEST_BLOCK.
Requirements
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| Header | ntddscsi.h (include Ntddscsi.h) |