How to get serial number from Mac hard disks?

Question

Is there an easy way to get the serial number of all the hard disks in a Mac using an API?

Basically, I\'m looking for a unique identifier for the hard disk with whi

Answer 1

Have a look at IOKit.

There are two handy tools on your Mac to find out about the possibilities of it:

• ioreg, a command line tool
• IORegistryExplorer, the same with a GUI.