Disk serial numbers

[Monte Goulding]

HI Ken

Can you get this info on OS X?

Thanks

Monte

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Ken Ray
> Sent: Thursday, 13 March 2003 7:13 AM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: RE: Disk serial numbers
> 
> 
> 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?
> > 
> > -- 
> >  Richard Gaskin 
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