Getting hard drive serial number from USB devices

[Joseph Kubik]

When automount sets a hex string for the path, is that the serial
number or the blkid uuid?
-Joseph-

On 1/14/06, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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