| sec : U Re: travelling idl license [message #32238 is a reply to message #32170] |
Tue, 24 September 2002 15:49   |
Andrew Cool
Messages: 219
Registered: January 1996
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Randall Skelton wrote:
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> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Andrew Cool wrote:
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>> You could have both your laptops as dual boot Windows/Linux
>> machines, and transfer a removable hard drive between them, with the
>> licence being encrypted to the HD serial number?? Awkward though.
>
> In the past week both Remair and Andrew have made reference to a HD serial
> number? I have never heard of such a thing and thought that between the
> various IDE and SCSI interfaces that such a thing was absolutely
> impossible. It is certainly possible to use your ethernet hardware
> address for hardware licensing but this will obviously not work in this
> circumstance. One can also dream about using the serial number from an
> Intel P3/P4 chip but this leaves all of the AMD and other CPU users out in
> the dark. Can someone please post a link that describes an interface to
> the 'hard drive' serial number?
>
> Many thanks,
> Randall
Hi Randall,
On Windows at least, the MS Information tool will return the serial
number
of the Hard Drive.
Look under Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System Information
-> Components/Storage/Drives
Cheers,
Andrew Cool
Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed False
File System NTFS
Size 37.27 GB (40,015,470,592 bytes)
Free Space 11.94 GB (12,825,831,424 bytes)
Volume Name DRIVE_C
******* Volume Serial Number 54D9C2D0 *********************************
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 37.27 GB (40,015,471,104 bytes)
Starting Offset 32256 bytes
Drive Description Disk drive
Drive Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Drive Model WDC WD400BB-60BNA1
Drive BytesPerSector 512
Drive MediaLoaded True
Drive MediaType Fixed hard disk media
Drive Partitions 1
Drive SCSIBus 0
Drive SCSILogicalUnit 0
Drive SCSIPort 0
Drive SCSITargetId 0
Drive SectorsPerTrack 63
Drive Size 40015503360 bytes
Drive TotalCylinders 5169
Drive TotalSectors 78155280
Drive TotalTracks 1240560
Drive TracksPerCylinder 240
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Andrew D. Cool
Electromagnetics & Propagation Group
Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Division
Defence Science & Technology Organisation
PO Box 1500, Edinburgh
South Australia 5111
Phone : 061 8 8259 5740 Fax : 061 8 8259 6673
Email : andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au
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