How to get harddisk serial number, such as Maxtor 6Y080l0.
Thanks to everyone.
Posted on 2005-01-23 21:10:19 by geegle
How to get harddisk serial number, such as Maxtor 6Y080l0.
Thanks to everyone.


You send a Drive ID command. It returns a bunch of information about the drive. One piece of that information is the serial number. If you need more information let me know. I believe it is in the standard ATA spec. It is also documented in the Undocumented PC book ( which I own, great book for low level stuff).
Posted on 2005-01-23 21:37:46 by mark_larson
hi, mark. i want to get harddisk information (such as serial number, tracks, heads per track, sectors per head) use windows API fuction.
but i don't know what API fuction i can use to do this.
Posted on 2005-01-23 23:55:14 by geegle
Is Maxtor 6Y080l0 the serial number or the manufacurer model number
which would be part of the IDE\Disk string?
http://freehafer.tripod.com/zip/zedhd.zip

In contrast, the serial number and geometry are on the disk itself.
http://freehafer.tripod.com/zip/zdgsn.zip
Posted on 2005-01-28 23:06:05 by roaknog
plus when they implemented LBA the system no longer calculates the header and plates the same anymore.. the hard driver sends out that info for the bios but its fake info..

at least this is what i was told a while back but i believe it to be true
Posted on 2005-02-01 10:32:35 by devilsclaw