Python Read the Device Manager Information

Question

I just need to read all of the information that is listed in Device Manager with a python 2.7 script. Especially the information under 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers' subcategory. This is needed to detect whether the SATA drives are under AHCI or IDE mode...

Answer 1

One easy way (on Windows) is to use Windows Device Manager's API. There is a Python binding here. After installing the package, the code bellow will do fine:

from infi.devicemanager import DeviceManager
dm = DeviceManager()
dm.root.rescan()
devices = dm.all_devices
for device in devices:
    print(device)