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