C#/Native: Reading HDD Serial Using SCSI PassThrough

Question

I have written three different methods that make use of native CreateFile and DeviceIoControl calls in order to retrieve the HDD Serial Number (not the

Answer 1

Your code actually runs OK for me, i.e. it returns the same data as the other methods described in the referenced thread. The only change I had to make was from:

serial = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(result.Buffer, 0, result.Buffer.Length)
                       .Replace("\0", String.Empty)
                       .Trim();

To:

serial = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(result.Buffer, 0, result.Buffer.Length)
                       .Substring(IntPtr.Size)
                       .Replace("\0", String.Empty)
                       .Trim();