Is there a way to retrieve the serial number of a RAID disk using VC++ or JAVA?

Question

I need to retrieve the serial number of a RAID disk using VC++ or JAVA. I dont know how to do.. Can anybody help me?

Let me be more specific. I'm given a exe file that when called returns a hard disk serial number. I was told that the number is unique for every system. Therefore it cannot be volume serial number. It is an eight digit alphanumeric number.
The JAVA program that i'm designing calls this exe for licensing purpose. (The software can be installed in only one system).
Everything works fine in a normal system. When i tried in a system that had RAID drive (more than one hard disks clustered), the exe is returning "null". This is my problem.
I need a way to find out the serial number of a RAID disk. I dont know the code of that exe. I have only the binary.

Answer 1

The problem is there's a bazillion different definitions of a "serial number", and of "RAID disk".

There's a "Volume Number" if the volume is already formatted under NTFS or FAT32.

Depending on the RAID implementation, the hardware types may have the RAID card's S/N. If it's software, that could have registered user's S/N as well.

And what do you mean by a RAID disk? The primary volume created from multiple drives? Or just one of the drives?

Can you be more specific?