site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Hello Pete, Am 15.06.2006 um 22:25 schrieb Peter Cassidy: (...)

From ATASMARTLib.h ; /*! @function GetATAIdentifyData @abstract Reads the 512-byte data provided by the drive in response to the ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE command.

*/ IOReturn ( *GetATAIdentifyData ) ( void * interface, void * buffer, UInt32 inSize, UInt32 * outSize ); Cool, I was looking for something like that :-) Thanks! Best regards, Dirk Stegemann _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... On 15 Jun 2006, at 20:02, darwin-dev-request@lists.apple.com wrote; I'd like to retrieve the system volume's hard disk serial number. It's part of the SMART API. I used it when hacking SMARTMonTools, some years back. Since (I think) MacOS X.3, the API to do an ATAIdentify has been in there. You just need to create a plug-in interface to kIOATASMARTUserClientTypeID, query the plug-in to get a handle to the interface. Then send the Identify command. (...) As it seems, the 'GetATAIdentifyData()' API requires Mac OS X 10.3 minimum (it's not present in the 10.2.8 SDK) -- maybe there's some kind of predecessor available on those systems? On the other hand, "Jaguar" is older than the SMART technology, I'd say... Do I assume correctly that a drive, which *doesn't* support the SMART technology cannot be queried by this API at all? Or will such a drive simply return invalid data for calls like 'SMARTEnableDisableOperations()' which try to retrieve information which cannot be provided by the drive, but still returns its serial number (incase a S/N is present)? I have some working dummy-code which does just this. Let me know if you want it. It's ancient but I built it on 10.4.6/ppc and it's fine. Here's a chunk of the Ident, including the s/n; I'll dig a bit deeper and do some tests next week, and would gladly contact you again incase I encounter unresolvable difficulties or questions. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com