X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: jimm Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: get drive id string for ide/sata? Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 6 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.22.56.37 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1331537453 13858 127.0.0.1 (12 Mar 2012 07:30:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:30:53 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: kv10g2000pbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.22.56.37; posting-account=05hOMwoAAAB6R8xtiQKzEljSMzgOhVF1 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 1336 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com how do I get the drive id string? is this a major undertaking and direct controller access? my guess is, it is. I was hoping it wouldn't be and that the task has already been done somewhere. I would like to incorporate the code into a secure disk wiping program which I unpublished, but I use and maintain for myself.