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Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants
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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.
> 

How about for other device classes?

	-hpa

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