Hard drive / mouse serial number retrieval?

[scott at MIT.EDU (Scott R Ehrlich)]

Quoting Chris Ball <cjb at mrao.cam.ac.uk>:

> Scott,
>
>   > Is there any program which can retrieve the hardware serial number
>   > of a hard drive, and possibly of a mouse?  From what I could see,
>   > dmidecode, lspci, and dmesg all did not provide this info.
>
> I'm guessing you mean model number, rather than each device's own serial
> number; there would be no reason to put the serial number of a mouse in
> firmware.
>

I actually do mean serial number.   I figured a mouse probably wouldn't 
have one
programmed in (though I figured I'd ask anyway), but a hard drive might.

> - Chris.
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> Chris Ball   <cjb at mrao.cam.ac.uk>    <http://blog.printf.net/>
>
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