USB flash drive serial number specification

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Published on 2010-04-19T11:40:14Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 11:43 UTC
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I retrieve a USB flash drive serial number by means of ioctl HDIO_GET_IDENTITY as described here.
Yet, for some flash drives there is no serial (for example my SanDisk Cruzer).

  1. Why some drives don not return a serial number?
    a) HDIO_GET_IDENTITY not implemented in driver ?
    b) They just don't have one ?
    c) Other ? (what?)

  2. Is there a specification (like IEEE) that describes where and how the serial number is stored inside the flash drive?

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