CSI Driver failed mount issue with PV/PVC

[ashok-az]

What happened:
We are getting frequently CSI driver mount failed issue with Windows batch job, it shows below error

MountVolume.MountDevice failed for volume "XXXXXX-logging-pv-csi" : kubernetes.io/csi: attacher.MountDevice failed to create newCsiDriverClient: driver name smb.csi.k8s.io not found in the list of registered CSI drivers",

What you expected to happen:
CSI driver should mount the volume for storage account

Environment:

• CSI Driver version: v1.16.0
• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version): 1.31.2
• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release): Windows (AKSWindows-2022-containerd-20348.3561.250416)
• Kernel (e.g. uname -a):
• Install tools:
• Others:

[andyzhangx]

the error means that csi driver is not running well on the windows node, can you follow this guide to get csi-smb-node-win-xxxxx pod description events and logs?

https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-smb/blob/master/docs/csi-debug.md#case2-volume-mountunmount-failed

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