Finding USB Disk or Flash drive information

[chris....@googlemail.com]

Our system will allow up to 6 usb disk drives to be plugged in to 6 usb
cables.
I need to know which disk is allocated to which USB port.
Does anyone know of any way , API call, drivers etc that I can use to
find out
the USB information for a USB disk etc given it's drive mapping.

Is it possible to force the USB port mapping to a particular drive
letter ?
Eg port 1 = D: port 2 = E: etc ?

Regards ChrisR

[Uwe Sieber]

chris....@googlemail.com wrote:
> Our system will allow up to 6 usb disk drives to be plugged in to 6 usb
> cables.

> Is it possible to force the USB port mapping to a particular drive
> letter ?
> Eg port 1 = D: port 2 = E: etc ?

The next release of my USB drive letter manager will be able
to do that. Here is a pre version:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/usbdlm199.zip

Greetings from Germany

Uwe

[chris ringrow]

Hi Uwe,

Thanks for the feedback that sounds good.

When will it be ready for use ?

How much would it cost for commerical use ?

Regards Chris

[Uwe Sieber]

>
>Thanks for the feedback that sounds good.
>When will it be ready for use ?
>How much would it cost for commerical use ?

I think it is ready but there is no harm in more testing. And it gives
me more time to write some more documentation :-)

Here is the page of the current release. The prices will be stable...
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

Greetings from Germany

Uwe

[chris ringrow]

UWE - this sounds very good - keep up the good work.

I think that we will need the 'Drive letter assingment by USB port' which you mention

in your 'Plans' section - do you have any idea when you may do this ?

Regards Chris

 

On 03/03/06, Uwe Sieber <ma...@uwe-sieber.de> wrote:

>
>Thanks for the feedback that sounds good.
>When will it be ready for use ?
>How much would it cost for commerical use ?


I think it is ready but there is no harm in more testing. And it gives
me more time to write some more documentation :-)

Here is the page of the current release. The prices will be stable...

Regards Chris

[Uwe Sieber]

>I think that we will need the 'Drive letter assingment
>by USB port' which you mention in your 'Plans' section -
>do you have any idea when you may do this ?

It is implemented and works fine in the pre version I mentioned
in my first answer:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/usbdlm199.zip

Uwe

[chris ringrow]

Hi Uwe,

Sorry to bother you but I have not very far so far - It's probably me being stupid.

 

My pc is running Windows Server 2003.

I currently have two USB drives connected X: and Y:

I would like to be able to assign them their drive letters automatically when they are plugged into specific USB port.

For Example:

     when either drive is plugged into usb port 1 it will be S:

     and when either drive is plugged into usb port 2 it will be T:

 In order to do that I think that I need to fill in the [DriveLettersUsbPort1] section and the [DriveLettersUsbPort2] section ?

In your notes it says I must run ListUsbDrives.exe  - However when I do that it does not show any USB ports ? Whether USBDLM is installed or not.

 

Regards Chris

 

On 03/03/06, Uwe Sieber <ma...@uwe-sieber.de> wrote:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/usbdlm199.zip
Regards Chris

[Uwe Sieber]

chris ringrow schrieb:

> My pc is running Windows Server 2003.
> I currently have two USB drives connected X: and Y:
> I would like to be able to assign them their drive letters automatically
> when they are plugged into specific USB port.
> For Example:
> when either drive is plugged into usb port 1 it will be S:
> and when either drive is plugged into usb port 2 it will be T:
> In order to do that I think that I need to fill in the
> [DriveLettersUsbPort1] section and the [DriveLettersUsbPort2] section ?

Yes, exactly.

> In your notes it says I must run ListUsbDrives.exe - However when I do that
> it does not show any USB ports ? Whether USBDLM is installed or not.

ListUsbDrives does not rely on USBDLM. I've not tested it under Windows
Server 2003 but I had expected that it works here too. I can check it
out
on monday at the earliest.

It can search for USB drives only, not for ports. Did you have at least
one
USB drive attached?

ListUsbDrives handles the USB part a this Microsoft tool does:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/stream/vidcap/UVCView.mspx

Does it find your USB drives?

Uwe