Hi folks,
Can someone here tell me if the serial # string returned by the IDENTIFY DEVICE command of a drive will be unique for one particular drive ?
The reason why I am asking is that the verbiage in the ATA spec 7.0 says,
6.16.17 Words (19:10): Serial number
This field contains the serial number of the device. The contents of this field is an ASCII character string of
twenty bytes. The device shall pad the character string with spaces (20h), if necessary, to ensure that the
string is the proper length. The combination of Serial number (words (19:10)) and Model number (words (46:27))
shall be unique for a given manufacturer.
Any insight on this one would be very useful.
Thanks,
Gana
