Hardware information

[Marco]

Hi
anyone can tell me how take hw information (hd serial number or usb token
serial number) without use classes
I'm using c

Thank's
marco

[Victor Bazarov]

Marco wrote:

anyone can tell me how take hw information (hd serial number or usb token
serial number) without use classes
I'm using c

(a) If you're using C, why are you asking in a C++ newsgroup?

(b) Neither language has any means to communicate with hardware.
You need to use some platform-specific methods. Please post
your query to a platform-specific newsgroup.

[SnaiL]

It depends on operating system you using.
If you are using Linux:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <linux/hdreg.h>

int main()
{
struct hd_driveid hd;
int ide;
ide=open("/dev/hda",O_RDONLY);
ioctl(ide,HDIO_GET_IDENTITY,&hd);
printf("Serial number - %s\n",hd.serial_no);
return 1;
}

maybe NetBSD?:

man atactl -> read atactl code ...

or FreeBSD?:

look at
atacontrol - cap command

[Thomas Matthews]

SnaiL wrote:

It depends on operating system you using.
If you are using Linux:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <linux/hdreg.h>

int main()
{
struct hd_driveid hd;
int ide;
ide=open("/dev/hda",O_RDONLY);
ioctl(ide,HDIO_GET_IDENTITY,&hd);
printf("Serial number - %s\n",hd.serial_no);
return 1;
}

maybe NetBSD?:

man atactl -> read atactl code ...

or FreeBSD?:

look at
atacontrol - cap command

Do you have information for an ARM based embedded system,
using the Nucleus Plus operating system?

Do you have information for a SPARC based embedded system
runing VRTX operating system?

In other words, platform specific solutions should
be posted in platform specific newsgroups, regardless
of the language being used.

All the world is not a Linux, Windows, Mac, VMS, etc.
platform.

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