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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Gwe, 2004-08-06 at 00:04, Mark Lord wrote:
>  >Two disks are not permitted to have the same serial number.
> 
> Sure they are.
> 
> But the combination of MODEL::SERIALNO is guaranteed to be unique.

Thats what the code is intended to check. I'm assuming I've screwed up
the logic a little somewhere. Once I've got the ident info it should be
blindingly obvious