Refer to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/wss2003/techinfo/plandeploy/storportwp.mspx

 

Storport is the new Microsoft port driver recommended for use with hardware RAID storage arrays and high performance Fibre Channel interconnects. Storport overcomes the limitations of the legacy SCSIport design, while preserving enough of the SCSIport framework that porting to the Storport device is straightforward for most developers. Storport enables bidirectional (full duplex) transport of I/O requests, more effective interactions with vendor miniport drivers, and improved management capabilities. Storport should be the port driver of choice when deploying SAN or hardware RAID storage arrays in a Windows Server 2003 environment.

 

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DMP DSM applies to HBA Storport Driver as well as DMP ASL to HBA Scsi Miniport Driver.