Reading manufacturer's serial number of a hard drive

hi all, i know that there's no java way to read the MANUFACTURER serial number of a hard disk, so i wonder if someone knows a way to read it using another language(c,c++ maybe???), and then implement it in a java app using the jni. It would be great if the solution can be used in both linux and windows(perhaps not the same solution, but one solution working for windows and another for linux)...any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks

Well first of there is no direct solution for as it has to do with accessing OS/BIOS native information therefore you might have to take help of native libraries and then get the info.
WINDOWS: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/DriveInfoEx.asp
LINUX: http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t287984-scsi-hard-disk-number.html
and take help of google to findout information for other OS's.
Now comes part where how is that we can export that feature to Java.
There is a concept called Native Functions in Java.All you have to do is to build dynamic runtime libraries for each of the OS specific by following the JNI Specs and then load that specific library such that you get that info from OS/BIOS via those native runtime libaries which we create.
It would be a great idea if you can go through the below links and there is a dedicate thread supported by sun in this very own forums which can help you in doing that.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jni/html/design.html
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds4-2/jni.html
Hope that might help :)
REGARDS,
RaHuL

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