Disk serial numbers

[Monte Goulding]

Hi Sorry

I meant the serial number

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 7:58 AM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: RE: Disk serial numbers
> 
> 
> 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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