Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2001 02:26:29 +0100 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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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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