Re: [t13] Serial # of an ATA drive

[Gary Laatsch]

Title: Serial # of an ATA drive

Gana,       The proposal I mentioned (e02136r1) was adopted as part of ATAPI-7 at the Oct 2002 meetings.  Funny I seconded the motion but couldn't remember if it passed....   gary laatsch   ----- Original Message ----- From: Sridaran, Gana To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:39 PM Subject: [t13] Serial # of an ATA drive 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