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On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:57:57 PM UTC-7, RayeR wrote:
> I don't know what ID string you exactly mean but probably the ID in
> drive firmware, so you have to send proper ATA command identify drive
> to get structure with various info data about the drive. You need to
> access drive controller directly via inportb/outportb functions to
> read/write from/to IO space...

something akin to 
Seagate ST225R

the make and model number.
something really nice would be the SATA or IDE drive and channel number.

this sounds like it's going to be absolutely gigantic code...
and I don't have any information to go by.