MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > Jorge wrote: > > I need to know how to get the hardware serial number of a hard disk in > > python. > > > For Windows, see http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread187326.html
For linux I'd run this and parse the results. # smartctl -i /dev/sda smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Momentus 7200.2 Device Model: ST9200420AS Serial Number: 7QW138AK Firmware Version: 3.AAA User Capacity: 200,049,647,616 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Thu Jun 4 09:30:23 2009 BST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled According to the man page smartctl also runs under windows/mac/solaris etc -- Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list