The physical device driver needs to manage both requests submitted to the extended strategy routines with the Request List format and requests submitted to the standard strategy routine with the standard request packet format. Notice that the CommandCode field in the OS/2 standard request packet coincides with the CommandPrefix byte in the extended request packet, which is guaranteed to be the ExecuteChain prefix. This allows the driver to manage both requests on the same queue.


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