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Retrieve harddisk serial number
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18/03/1998 03:03:23
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00084712
Message ID:
00085277
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26
>Unfortunately, there's no universal way to do this - in the case of IDE
>drives, the serial number, if embedded at all on the readable media or in
>ROM, isn't readable using standard Disk I/O calls, and with SCSI, while
>there is a manufacturer ID and model embedded in the Mode Page data in
>Target Device information, there is no common Mode Page data for a serial
>number; if embedded at all, it'll be in the device's ROM, and would require
>you to use SCSI command blocks to access the Device Mode page data. I'd
>suggest posing the question to comps.periphs.scsi if you're specific
>interest is in SCSI device and you're comfortable writing a fair amount of
>low-level code to communicate directly with SCSI devices (C and a fair
>amount of in-line assembler will be needed to write this sort of function.)
>
>
>
>>
>>Hello all!
>>How can I get the harddisk serial number(not volume serial number , but
>serial number from manufacturer)?
>>
>
>Attachment Converted: Edward M Rauh.vcf

Hi Edward,
Thank you for your interest. I've found one software solving this kind of problem(manufacturer ID). It is an Windows 95 app.,Nuts&Bolts,from Helix Software. If you know more details about this problem, please let me know.

Dan
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