What impact does this have on those of us who've been using the traditional SCSI driver for VCD in Win7? After installing 5.4.6.2 on my Win7 x64 system, Device Manager suggests VCD is still using the SCSI driver. I assume this is in part to resolve the issues with Win8.1, but are there any side effects for folks running Win7 or original Win8? In particular, will switching from SCSI to storport affect the deep level of drive emulation that sets VCD apart from most other virtual drives?
Really? Where? Maybe the installation didn't work, and you are still using the last driver?
It shouldn't. Using storport has the benefit of a cleaner and probably more efficient design and theoretically increased performance (less CPU use). But I doubt you will see the performance increase in real life.
Device Manager still shows ELBY CLONEDRIVE as a "SCSI Cd-Rom Device". VCD itself is still listed under "Storage controllers" with the SCSI icon; the only driver installed there is VClone.sys version 5.4.6.2 (I thought storport.sys had to be loaded with all storport controllers), and I still saw SCSI entries under the Details tab. Maybe it'll change upon reboot (I'm not sure if it's been rebooted in the last few days), or do storport drivers still declare themselves to Win7 as SCSI (like most RAID drivers do, and SATA AHCI drivers before Win7)?
