Disk serial numbers

[Ken Ray]

Well, with Macs, you can check "the drives" to see if the disk you're
expecting is mounted. Although this doesn't tell you if there's nothing
in the CD drive, it takes you a lot farther than in Windows. If you
really need to know if there's nothing in the CD drive, let me know, and
I'll hunt around for it.

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 Monte Goulding
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:05 PM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: RE: Disk serial numbers
> 
> 
> 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 
> > >  Fourth World Media Corporation
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