Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Wed, 16 May 2001 16:31:42 -0700

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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