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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Volume Serial Number
From:       Brad Hards <bhards () bigpond ! net ! au>
Date:       2003-07-17 11:28:59
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 01:02 am, Kuba Ober wrote:
> Afaik, USB devices do have serial numbers. OTOH, there may be no nice way
USB devices do not, as a rule, have serial numbers. I vaguely recall a 
discussion on the Linux USB list that storage devices must have serial 
numbers, but some devices fake it (that is "heh, you never said it had to be 
_unique_"!)
Anything that supports standard commands (SBC-2, RBC, whatever) will probably 
allow you to do an INQUIRY for the serial number.
> to get the unique serial number of a recordable media from a standard IDE
> cd-rom. I guess that burners can read those serials (ATIP data?). And
> obviously with netboot the only local "serial" numbers you have are your IP
> number and/or ethernet address, which may not make much sense anyway for
> your application.
If there is no disk, knowing the serial number probably isn't going to matter 
much.
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