Disk serial numbers

[Ken Ray]

Hey, Richard! You have something there... if you do a shell to switch to
a drive (like "D:") and there's no media in the drive, it's return "The
device not ready." under XP, and it DOESN'T throw up a dialog box in
your face!

Now all you know is that the device isn't ready (not necessarily that
there's no media in the drive), but 99% of the time it would be giving
that response because of no media.

Good catch!

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:47 PM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Disk serial numbers
> 
> 
> Ken Ray wrote:
> 
> > 
> > CDs have serial numbers as well... you can retrieve it this way:
> > 
> > http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/metacard/metacard.htm?disk001
> 
> Wouldn't calling the DOS dir command on a series of devices 
> throw an exception in XP for those devices without media in them?
> 
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