site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jun 15, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Dirk Stegemann wrote: Hello, (originally posted at carbon-dev) - -chris zubrzycki - - -- PGP public key: http://homepage.mac.com/beren/publickey.txt ID: 0xA2ABC070 Fingerprint: 26B0 BA6B A409 FA83 42B3 1688 FBF9 8232 A2AB C070 ======================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) Comment: Please sign reply-http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAkSRfdAACgkQ+/mCMqKrwHAWmACeNZFpnjcAjkLMTbYtjxh6V6F3 ZMoAoLMMJa5gqDscFVZR87v8GDs6lzYj =M1Cq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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... I'd like to retrieve the system volume's hard disk serial number. For drives which indeed support such a serial number it can be read using the ioreg tool. Although I'd prefer to read the hard disk serial number using an API (e.g. IOKit) instead of using a dedicated tool, I'm more concerned about the different paths I seem to have to go through the dictionaries to get different drives' serial numbers when the drives are attached by different busses (see ioreg output below). Also, the *keys* used to query the dictionary for the S/N differ, e.g. "device serial" vs. "Serial Number". Apple's System Profiler gets them all, but maybe it also uses different code to read the S/N from different devices? Is there a recommended / unified way to retrieve a hard drive's serial number? At least, are there known pitfalls? Thanks for pointers, links, sample code snippets, comments, or whatever you might consider useful! Try looking at smartmontools for some examples on how to query different drives. Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com