Can anyone shed any light on how the logical serial number value in the partition information option (0x01E0) of MATMATR is generated?
It appears to have changed to use an alpha-numeric character sequence based on the partition number. A suffix is appended to the hardware serial number according to the position in the sequence 1-9A-Z of the partition number so partition 15 will have 'F' , partition 16 will have 'G' and 35 will have 'Z' appended to the hardware serial number to make the logical serial number. After 'Z' I presume the suffix will change to 11-19, 1A-1Z so partition 70 would have '1Z' appended.
This used to be constructed by taking the partition number, converting it to hex and appending the result to the hardware serial number so partition 35 would have '23' appended to the hardware serial number.
It seems to depend on the OS version and/or the hardware model as to which method is used. Sometimes we're seeing the hex value appended to the serial number other times a character value. Does anyone have any definitive information on this please?
Thanks.
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Paul Wren
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