You cannot generate a dump file when you use a storport virtual miniport driver in Windows Server 2003

 

Consider the following scenario: 

•  You have a Windows Server 2003-based computer that is configured to start by using a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) device.
• The FCoE adapter that is used to connect to the FCoE device supports crash dump file generation.
• The system is configured to generate a crash dump file when a fatal system error occurs.
•  A fatal system error occurs on the system.

 In this scenario, the crash dump file is not generated as expected.

Windows Server 2003 does not support the generation of crash dump files by the storport virtual miniport. In the case of certain virtual miniports (such as FCoE), an additional hotfix is required so that the Windows kernel returns the dump file stack in the correct format.

For more information about the hotfixes that are required to enable crash dump creation by using storport virtual miniports over FCoE, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

939875 A hotfix is available that adds support for crash dump file generation on a Windows Server 2003-based computer that is using iSCSI Boot Initiator 2.05

957910 A Windows Server 2003 SP2-based iSCSI boot server cannot generate dump files if the server uses a Storport virtual miniport as the LUN controller

For more information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

943295 An update enables support for Storport virtual miniports in Windows Server 2003
 

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates