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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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