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    SubjectRe: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants
    On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:26:12AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
    > > Are FireWire (and USB) disks always detected in the same order? Or does it
    > > behave like ADB, where you never know which mouse/keyboard is which
    > > mouse/keyboard?
    >
    > USB disks are required (haha etc) to have serial numbers. Firewire similarly
    > has unique disk identifiers.

    "haha etc" indeed. We've just purchased and tested a BusLink
    20GB USB disk. Works fine with the driver we found. Great, in fact.
    But no serial number at all.

    Joel


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