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Re: get disk serial number

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From: zhan wei ming
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:20
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Andrue,
I am trying your code. let you know the result as it comes out.

thanks.

zhan wei ming
"Andrue Cope [TeamB]" <no.spam@not.a.valid.address> wrote in message
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> zhan wei ming wrote:
>
> > OK. suppose the app is provided with a PC. ... ...
> > let's come back to the technics. what's wrong with
> > DeviceIoControl(...) which always returns error?
>
> Almost anything :-/
>
> By now you've probably read my initial response. My example actually
> uses a different command and I can personally vouch for it working.
>
> Then again I can also personally vouch for spending several days with a
> colleage trying all sorts of things before I got what I wanted. It's a
> bit like any of the following:
>
>   * Trying to transfer data between two PCs using a serial cable.
>   * Trying to sort out Microsoft networking when it doesn't do it
> itself.
>
> DeviceIOControl() doesn't help because about all it ever returns is "No
> Error" or "A parameter is incorrect". Given that at times you have over
> a dozen parameters (including structure members) this seems designed to
> drive you mad.
>
> My first suggestion would be that you try my example with a SCSI device
> first of all. When you have that working try it on an IDE device.
> Everything you write and change should be documented on a notepad so
> that you can be sure you know what you've done.
>
> -- 
> Andrue Cope [TeamB]
> [Bicester, Uk]
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