This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Disk Serial Numbers.
Article: 7818 of alt.hackers From: mdanie@wilbur.mbark.swin.oz.au (MICHAEL PAUL DANIEL) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Disk Serial Numbers. Date: 15 May 95 12:02:11 GMT Organization: Swinburne University of Technology Lines: 13 Approved: Shit yeah! Message-ID: mdanie.800539331@wilbur NNTP-Posting-Host: wilbur.mbark.swin.oz.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Keywords: dos disk serial number Status: RO
Just a quick question.. How does MS-DOS determine the serial number when you format a disk?? OBLameHACK: My car was leaking a bit of oil out the side of one of the sideplates, so rather that farting around to get a new gasket, i just got the trusty 'silastic gasket goo' and squirted a bit along the edge... well it works, so i'm not complaining too loud :) -- Michael Daniel Management Studies/Computer Science (3rd Yr) Swinburne Uni. "Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.." Enzo Ferrari. mdanie@wilbur.mbark.swin.oz.au RIP Gregg Hansford 8/4/52->5/2/95
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