Re: The macs serial number (clearer)
Re: The macs serial number (clearer)
- Subject: Re: The macs serial number (clearer)
- From: Diggory Laycock <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 17:38:36 +0100
I just had a look in My IOReg Explorer (Pismo Powerbook, Jaguar )
under Serial-Number I get the following:
key: serial-number
type: data
value: <"HDSM7633LL/A" , "QT008O7R">
The serial Number on the Bottom of my PB is thus:
QT008O7RHDS
Does this help you?
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 04:37 pm, Jonathan Guy wrote:
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Sorry for the second post but I think I need to make this a little
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clearer.
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What I need is access to the serial number on the back of the mac NOT
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any other serial number.
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This is PURELY for asset management purposes and NOT any form of copy
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protection.
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I am aware that not all macs support hardware serial numbers.
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Typing AppleSystemProfiler in the terminal is not an option this must
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be achieved using some form
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of C or objective-C code.
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Typing ioreg in the terminal is also not an option.
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Using the IORegistry explorer lists the "serial-number" property as
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4b364100 00000000 00000000 00534730 33343252 58000000 00000000 00000000
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00000000 00000000 000000
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which is clearly not the serial number on the back of my machine. Is
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this coded?
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Basically I have a network daemon which needs to return certain machine
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specific data, one of them
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being the serial number (if available).
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Thanks again for any help. I'm pretty desperate for this now and can't
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seem to find anything on it.
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Jonathan Guy
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