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From: Ed Mulroy [TeamB]
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:38

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> Yes but it's not simple. We issue a SCSI Identify
> command then interpret what comes back. Since
> Windows 'fakes' SCSI responses for IDE ...

Do you have any hints about how one could do that or at least where to 
find the info on how to do it?

The only way I know is with a 16 bit program that reads the serial 
number and feeds it back.  That's enough of a kludge that I've long 
since given up on doing that.

.  Ed

> Andrue Cope wrote in message
> news:417fa38f@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>> any body knows how to get serial number (not volume
>> serial number) of a disk, say C drive?
>
> Yes but it's not simple. We issue a SCSI Identify command
> then interpret what comes back. Since Windows 'fakes'
> SCSI responses for IDE drives the resulting data block will
> often have been manufactured by the OS and it's contents
> aren't neccessarily useful.
>
> There may be a better method using the EnumDevices
> functions but this will only work under Windows 2000 or
> XP where SetupAPI.DLL is available.

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