Hello,
I am trying to use WMI in order to get information about drives so that we can
read and write bytes to raw Compact Flash cards, among other devices. The
problem that we are having is that we can't seem to get an accurate size for
the disks. We need to be able to get a full dump of the cards and write 0x00 to
the cards in order to zero them completely but cannot do so without having an
accurate size, in bytes, for the devices.
I know that in the past we were able to do so, using the Win32_Diskpartition
Size property but have recently found that this is no longer the case as it is
inaccurate. We believe this is because we may not have tested it with a FAT
formatted media before.
These are the results of using a 512MB CF card with Fat16 formatting:
-------- Correct sizes reported by Linux and Winhex --------
>>> 512483328 # HAL, FDISK and WinHex on Ubuntu Linux both report this size
>>> (real size)
512483328
>>> 512483328 # WinHex Total capacity of Physical media (real size)
512483328
-------- Wrong sizes reported --------
>>> int(partition.Size) # Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition - works when there are
>>> NO partitions (i.e. already initialised with \x00 throughout)
509935104
>>> int(drive.Size) # Win32_DiskDrive - always wrong, it's a "best guess" given
>>> info the disk provides
509967360
>>> 509665280 # Windows Right Click > Properties on drive
509665280
>>> 509665280 # WinHex Free Space of Logical media (f:) -- same as Properties
>>> (as it has fat formatting)
509665280
>>> 509934592 # WinHex Total capacity of Logical media (f:)
509934592
Do you have any ideas on how we might be able to get this size information?
Below is some of the code that we have been using to try and get all of the
disk information that we require.
Thanks in advance, Chris.
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for drive in c.Win32_DiskDrive():
# Add device and its size to medias found dictionary
# Use the MediaLoaded to add to the dictionary that it's loaded
pnp_dev_id = drive.PNPDeviceID.split('\\')
if pnp_dev_id[0] == 'USBSTOR':
usb_dev = flightdataretrieval.device.GenericDevice()
for partition in drive.associators("Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition"):
for logical_disk in partition.associators("Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition"):
usb_vol_dict = {}
if str(logical_disk.FileSystem) != "None":
usb_vol_dict[str(logical_disk.Caption)] = str(logical_disk.FileSystem)
logging.debug("Drive %s size %s",str(logical_disk.FileSystem),str(drive.Size))
if drive.Size != None:
# Determine the path to use for removable disk access
logical_address = '\\\\.\\' + logical_disk.Caption
usb_dev.location = logical_address # r'\\.\f:'
usb_dev.physical_location = drive.DeviceID # r'\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1'
usb_dev.dev_type = 'USB'
usb_dev.media_loaded = drive.MediaLoaded
# fix 02.12.09 - use physical disk drive size, not that of the partition.
# counter fix 18.02.10 - no, use the partition! it has the larger size
reported.
usb_dev.size = int(partition.Size) # e.g. 521773056 (512MB)
##usb_dev.size = int(drive.Size) # e.g. 518192640 (512MB)
usb_dev.volumes = usb_vol_dict
usb_dev_list.append(usb_dev)
else: pass
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