Getting hard drive serial number from USB devices

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sat Jan 14 19:29:35 UTC 2006


Peter wrote:
> 
> lsusb -v|...|grep iSerial

Thanks for the reply!

   Unfortunately, that only gives the serial number of the USB 
controller, not the hard drive itself. This is a problem because I use 
USB drives with removable disk carriers. If I rely on the USB/IDE ASIC's 
serial number my program would not be able to tell the difference 
between different hard drives connected through the common carrier.

Madison

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