Mike> It seems pretty obvious that USB devices must have some way of
Mike> uniquely identifying a particular unit otherwise you couldn't
Mike> differentiate between, say, two USB hard disks on the same bus.
USB makes provisions for this in form of an standard serial number
[combined with unique per-vendor ID and per-vendor device ID], but
[the bad news] is that it is not mandatory [sillicon prices rise]. At
least for mass storage media [disks] it is; it's a point.
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