From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 21:27:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 21:27:15 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:50183 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 21:27:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 02:26:29 +0100 From: Joel Becker To: Alan Cox Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Message-ID: <20010517022629.K6223@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Joel Becker , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:26:12AM +0100 X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- "What do you take me for, an idiot?" - General Charles de Gaulle, when a journalist asked him if he was happy. http://www.jlbec.org/ jlbec@evilplan.org