How do you get a hard drive’s serial number? Is it different for SCSI vs IDE vs SATA vs SSD? What if it’s connected over USB or Firewire? What about memory sticks?
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- Several programs at delphi components
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HDD internal serial number (not Volume) [ 1 ] was http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Pascal/Q_20585823.html
Most tools like these just parse through /proc/scsi... or /sys/block...
- sdparm [ 2 ] was http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html
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scsiinfo – a SCSI information tool for Solaris systems
- by John DiMarco
ported an aborted project