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From: larry@palan.uucp (Larry Strickland)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.0 Volume Serial Numbers
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.003406.8456@palan.uucp>
Date: 6 Mar 91 00:34:06 GMT
References: <12818@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1991Mar5.033219.369@nuchat.sccsi.com>
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In article <1991Mar5.033219.369@nuchat.sccsi.com> paul@nuchat.sccsi.com (Paul Hutmacher) writes:
>In article <12818@hubcap.clemson.edu> chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Behrens) writes:
>>Is there a way to access these ??  Or is there a way to change them ??
>
>And while we're at it, what the hell are they for?

I'm still not sure what they are for, but they are stored in the boot sector
(in the extended portion of the configuration section) in ASCII!

If you have TurboC (or probably anything else), you can use the absolute
disk read to read the first sector on the disk and you will find it there.
I can change it with debug and there seems to be no effect.  Of course, this
doesn't work on extended (>32M) DOS partitions.

-larry