Hi all
i want a way by c++ or assembly to get the USB flash memory serial
number
i don't know if it possiple or not i hope i can find a way for that as
fast as possible
and thank u all
good bye
Heba

USB memory looks like an ATA disk drive to the system. Disk drives can read back their
serial numbers. Look for the interface to get this info from a disk drive. It will be
different for each operating system. The way the drives give back their serial numbers
is different for SCSI and ATA, but probably the same at the operating system
level.

And I'm sure there's a better newsgroup to ask this in than rec.BOATS.electronics.


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"Heba" wrote in message om...
Hi all
i want a way by c++ or assembly to get the USB flash memory serial
number
i don't know if it possiple or not i hope i can find a way for that as
fast as possible
and thank u all
good bye
Heba

"Chuck Tribolet" wrote in message
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USB memory looks like an ATA disk drive to the system. Disk drives can
read back their
serial numbers. Look for the interface to get this info from a disk
drive. It will be
different for each operating system. The way the drives give back their
serial numbers
is different for SCSI and ATA, but probably the same at the operating
system
level.

Every USB device has a uniqe serial number, which has nothing to do with the
serial number of the presented disk. Even a serial-USB dongle has one,
otherwise Windows coould not see the difference between two units plugged in
at the same time, they would both get the same COM port number without
unique serial number.

Meindert

"Heba" wrote in message
om...
Hi all
i want a way by c++ or assembly to get the USB flash memory serial
number
i don't know if it possiple or not i hope i can find a way for that as
fast as possible
and thank u all
good bye
Heba

Strange question for this newsgroup. But ok, do you mean the standard disk
serial number or the USB device serial number? The latter is a bit tricky to
read. Every USB device must have a unique serial number for windows to
distinguish between devices. I don't know if windows offers an API call to
read the serial number of a USB device. I know it shows up in the registry,
in HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\enum\usb\vid_xxxx&pi d_yyyy where xxxx and
yyyy are the vendor and product IDs of the device in question.

Meindert