Re: DiskId32 and SATA drives

Hi Lynn,

I noticed on your website the link to
Microsoft Knowledge Base Q305184: SAMPLE: Enumerate CD Drives and Get Their
Properties/Capabilities (Q305184)

Have you tried the setupdi (setupapi.dll) functions to enumerate ?
Once you have handles for all the devices, you can then call your ioctls
for bus & device info. Unless the ioctls are not working on the SATAs ?

Bill Mudd


"Lynn McGuire" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uaHcifl1FHA.664@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> My DiskId32 tool ( http://www.winsim.com/diskid32/diskid32.html ) seems
> to be having problems with identifying SATA drives on Windows XP SP2.
> DiskId32 is a tool for querying the hard drives in a Windows system and
> getting the model number / serial number. DiskId32 usually works very
> well with PATA drives. Does anyone know of differences in the driver
> interface between PATA and SATA hard drives ?
>
> Does anyone know of a new algorithm to query the SATA hard drives in
> user mode ? DiskId32 usually works very well for users with
> Administrator
> privileges in Windows XP SP2 but the interface seems to have problems
> in user mode without Administrator priviliges.
>
> Thanks,
> Lynn McGuire
>
>




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