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- From: ykhan@achilles.net (Yousuf Khan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Tough Question: Get a Hard-disk's Brand/Model No....
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 02:45:15 GMT
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- Allen Te <pcdirect@pacific.net.sg> wrote:
-
- >I've seen a few programs that are actually able to detect
- >a hard-disk's brand/model.
- >Eg, Conners AP540, Maxtor MT1200 etc....
-
- >Is that possible using some interrupts? Can someone give
- >me some source for doing that?
-
- It's not possible with any standard interrupt services -- it's too
- specialized to bother to implement as some kind of an operating system
- API function. You would have to go into I/O ports that control the
- hard disk directly.
-
- Actually, I lie. You can do it through the API functions in SCSI
- device drivers, I believe. In IDE, you have to implement the port
- accesses yourself. I think I got some source code here, but it'll take
- some time for me to rummage around on how to do it.
-
- In the meantime, if somebody else can come up with the sources, then I
- can stop my rummaging, and I can use yours. :-) In other words, don't
- hold your breath on whether I can find the source code quickly.
-
- Yousuf Khan
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